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- "EXECUTE MACRO HELP"
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- "This function loads and executes a previously recorded series of"
- "multi-record operations; i.e. select records, calculate, sort, print."
- "Thusly, a MACRO can be used to extrapolate data routinely needed for"
- "day to day operations. The output of a MACRO will change according to"
- "the state of the datafile at the time the MACRO is run."
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- "A MACRO is like a computer program; a way to do a job that needs done."
- "If you need to do a job only once don't write a program to do it, just"
- "do it manually; you'll do a lot less work. When the need for the job"
- "becomes repetitive THEN consider writing a MACRO to do it."
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- "MACROs are selected in the same way as datafiles, I/O group and marker"
- "files. After selection the screen will ask you to make the printer"
- "ready, and LEAVE IT on-line until the MACRO ends. The essence of the"
- "MACRO is SPEED; they stop ONLY to display a total/average not printed."