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- Enter, Browse, or Update Data
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- to ADD a NEW record: hit 'Ins' key
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- to ACCESS an EXISTING record: hit ─┘ to OPEN window
- and enter desired RECORD NUMBER
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- BROWSE use PgDn (Prev) PgUp (Next) Home (First) End (Last)
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- toggling the , , and keys sets CASE to LOWER, UPPER or CAPS
- entering 'Del' sets CASE to 'As Entered'
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- ║ to insert data from LAST record, use the F1 KEY ║
- ║ to UNDO all changes to RECORD, use the F2 KEY ║
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- move the update BAR 'DOWN' using 'Enter' key or key
- move the update BAR 'UP' using key
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- if the KEY field, or a SORTED field, the RED update bar will
- SKIP over the field, to OVERRIDE, use the Up Arrow key
- CAUTION: changing a SORTED field may cause an OUT OF ORDER condition
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- ║ KEY is shown on each record's BROWSE card ║
- ║ If KEY blank 1st 30 characters of the record is displayed ║
- ║ If KEY blank AND FILE INDEXED, SORT fields are displayed ║
- ║ If KEY non blank, contents of KEY will be displayed ║
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- to get prev SCREEN, hit PgUp key
- to get next SCREEN, hit PgDn key
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- move cursor to 'LEFT' using - key
- move cursor to 'RIGHT' using - key
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- use END key to TRUNCATE field, HOME key to RESET cursor
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- to insert data into field, use Ins key, data... Enter
- to insert special characters, hold ALT key while pressing
- decimal representation, for example, alt 251 = √
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- to delete data from field, use Del key, Del key... Enter
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- to EXIT record, hit the 'Esc' key
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- the same COMP macros can be used in both EXEC and FILE tasks
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- in FILE: enter '=' at a KeyName to EXECUTE MACRO
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- To blank a field: KEY = BLANK
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- To make all words LOWERCASE: KEY = LOWER
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- To make all words UPPERCASE: KEY = UPPER
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- To make first letter of each word CAPS: KEY = CAPS
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- To DUPLICATE a field from the LAST record: KEY = LAST(KEY)
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- To CONCATenate up to 7 fields into one field stripping off
- leading or trailing blanks NAME = CONCAT(FIRST,@,LAST)
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- To PARSE the leftmost word in a field to a target field
- leaving remaining words FIRST = PARSE(NAME)
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- To write SYSTIME: TARGET should be TYP=C LEN=08 TIME = SYSTIME
- To write SYSDATE: TARGET should be TYP=C LEN=16 DATE = SYSDATE
- To write SYSDMIL: TARGET should be TYP=C LEN=21 DMIL = SYSDMIL
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- RECORD LINKED is a system KEY reflecting whether a
- record was successfully linked (Y) or not (N)
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- RECORD STATUS is a system KEY reflecting whether the
- record is 'ACTIVE' or INACTIVE'
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- placing an 'X' in RECORD STATUS flags record as 'INACTIVE'
- a record with an 'X' in RECORD STATUS will be bypassed by LIST
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- @ is a system KEY that when used inserts a BLANK into
- a CONCAT STRING
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- the character @ when inserted into a field is considered a
- NULL character and will print a BLANK
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- To 'include' a file when LIST printing, enter a FILENAME
- in @Include KEY FOR EXAMPLE: @Include form.let