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

[John Culleton]

On Saturday 17 April 2010 09:05:28 Vince Coen wrote:
> On Friday 16 Apr 2010, John Culleton wrote:
> > 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:
> > -----------------------
> >      DISPLAY "Record Key".
> >      ACCEPT  rec-key.
> > -------------------------------
> > 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.
>
> Sounds totally reasonable to me.
>
> Why have a screen section if you have nothing to put in it?
>
>
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It is part of my template, which I use to save typing and errors. I think I 
will comment it out. 
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