[open-cobol-list] Funny things happen with DISPLAY and ACCEPT.

[John Culleton]

When I call my latest toy program from the command line, either from a 
regular session or a terminal type window on my GUI,  something funny 
happens. I want to display a mesage and then receive some typed in data in  
return. Simple, no? Well, not so simple.
Here is the code fragment:
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     DISPLAY "Record Key".
     ACCEPT  rec-key.
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What happens is that the ACCEPT line opens up a new window, thus obscuring 
the displayed message. 
I have a SCREEN SECTION but there is nothing in it. It is just a 
placeholder.

If I delete the SCREEN SECTION header the program starts to operate 
normally. 

IMO an empty section should not affect the way the progam performs. But it 
does. 
-- 
John Culleton
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