Robert wrote:
A warning to do what? Read carefully? Not make sloppy
assumptions? Should we
repeat every instruction twice?
Exactly. Exactly.
More seriously, a warning that UNHIDE, unlike HIDE, doesn't take a colon
and s/g numbers. Here's the HELP HIDE info:
"HIDE and UNHIDE operate on programming Save/Gets 01-1999 and "ordinary"
Save/Gets 0-9|A-Z.
"Syntax (parent routine calling U2 frame FOO)
"--------------------------------------------
" ... JM 2.HIDE:nn,mm,nn-mmQ2 JM 2.foo Q2 JM 2.UNHIDEQ2 ..."
It would be helpful if it said:
Note: unlike HIDE, UNHIDE does not allow a semicolon or s/gs after it.
The WAIT command is an artifact of 3+. It was designed to WAIT until the
immediately preceeding (usually disk or video) operation is complete before
proceeding with macro execution. YMMV.
Understood. Thanks.
Incidentally, I don't see what you gain by your adaptation of U2's AUTOFILE
routine. If you just used AUTOFILE as-is, and as designed, you would avoid
errors. You added nothing to it, only the sheer bulk of all those comments.
I added something, I forget now what it was. I think something minor about
the filename it stores under. But it isn't worth pursuing.
Harry Binswanger
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