David is absolutely 100% correct. Louis Windsor is also 100% correct. The reason the "L" VOC entry clears your active SELECT is that the command is not interpreted, therefore the "botched" command - since it did not work against your SELECT list - by default - clears your active select list.
ED VOC CLEARSELECT FILE VOC CLS (makes a synonym). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hona, David S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'U2 Users Discussion List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 9:53 PM Subject: RE: [UV] Ever wondered how something works... > My VOC doesn't have these entries you mention...nor does the UV Account VOC > (always a good place to check for such things - or the NEWACC file). > > However, looks like your application once resided on a Prime Computer, under > PRIMOS and using Prime INFORMATION. > > L and LD are 'list directory' PRIMOS operating system commands. The VOC > entry you showed was how you executed the commands from Prime INFORMATION > PERFORM prompt (TCL). I believe field 3 "PR" indicated a PRIMOS command > under PI. > > What you're seeing is a side-effect, rather than a 'feature' of UV TCL. > > Of course, there is no reason why you can clone 'L' from 'CLEARSELECT'. ;-) > > Regards > David > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Barry Brevik > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 1:34 PM > To: U2 list (E-mail) > Subject: [UV] Ever wondered how something works... > > > One day, I stumbled across an interesting behavior; at TCL, if I type 'L', > it results in my current SELECT list being cleared. You get an error > message, but it does not seem to hurt anything. This is great, because I > hate typing in CLEARSELECT. > > But ever since, I've been wondering what it's really doing. Turns out that > 'L' is one of only two similar VOC entries, the other being 'LD'. It looks > like this: > > 0001: V > 0002: L > 0003: PR > > The error message you get reads: > > Unable to create new process. Will try again. > Create Process failed (2). > > This is on NT. IIRC, on unix the message is different. Anybody know what > this is doing, or if it is safe? > > -- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
