No offense, but look again. I didn't "STOP" but did a "STOPM" which prints a quoted message to standard out. One can compose the message in any format containing any information desired. Now I don't know if .NET will accept that, but I bet it does. We still use green-screen here.
Karl <quote who="Brian Leach"> > Karl > > Just one problem with that technique. > > If you do this inside a subroutine (and I DO see people use STOP inside > subroutines all too often) you're locking into a legacy terminal > environment. > > Call that from e.g. .NET and the subroutine stops - but you don't get any > message back as to why. It's one more thing to refactor when changing > front > end clients. > > For some interfaces it will even break the session. > > So the lesson is - and I'm not suggesting that anyone on this list would > do > this - don't use STOP (or even worse, ABORT) inside a subroutine. If > you're > opening files inside a subroutine, just RETURN with a suitable error > message. > > Brian > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 25 March 2007 16:57 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [U2] New to UV/PICK, programming a banner >> >> Precisely why I use uniVerse's stopm directive: >> >> open '','FILE' to FILE else stopm 'No FILE File!' >> >> It's a simple oneliner that tells you all you need to know >> upon failure. >> >> Karl > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > -- Karl Pearson Director of I.T. ATS Industrial Supply, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.atsindustrial.com 800-789-9300 x29 Local: 801-978-4429 Fax: 801-972-3888 "To mess up your Linux PC, you have to really work at it; to mess up a microsoft PC you just have to work on it." ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
