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Re: DB vs. CP

At 11:35 PM 2/9/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Harry B. writes:
>≪ What are Stop Codes?! ≫
>
>I don't exactly know their provenance, but I think they may have come from
>Display Write (an IBM dinosaur that Signature was supposed to replace --
>hence, why we didn't call it XyWrite 4 from the get-go [another story
>altogether]). Stop codes let you stop at any designated place in a document,
>with a user-defined prompt to tell you what to type. They were a pretty big
>deal when we determined the feature set, so I can't imagine they're not being
>in the manuals, but I spoze anything is possible. If you can stand to load
>up the menus/dialogs, give 'em a try. They work only with the help of some
>XPL in the dialog file, tho I guess you could isolate that into a U2 file if
>you wanted to.
>
>Tim Baehr
>tbaehr@xxxxxxxx
>
They aren't in the docs under "Stop Codes." What menu-dlg sequence do I use?
What is it under? And could you explain the rationale here? I mean, for what
purpose would one use them? An example would be helpful.

Regards,
Harry

Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx