Re: Set Reserved subcommand

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From: Paul Gilmartin
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1993 16:10

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eric snyder (ESNYDER@PSUHMC.BITNET) wrote:
:       Does anyone know how to display a field larger than 80
:     characters on a screen using the SET RESERVED subcommand.  I
:     am coding an Xedit macro that displays a screen and I wanted to
:     display a 'text' area of 250 characters.  I wanted this text area
:     to be one field.  I want the one field to carry over several lines.

I couldn't find any way when I had to do this.  I settled on using the
file area, with everything else SET RESERVED.  I needed to (if I remember):

xedit foo bar (width 250
set lrecl *
set trunc *
set display 1 *

It didn't feel very good.  :-(

gil

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