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- From: dave@bradley.bradley.edu (David Vessell)
- Subject: Re: Improvements to I4GL
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.164306.24310@bradley.bradley.edu>
- Organization: Bradley University
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 16:43:06 GMT
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- To all these suggestions, I want to add one more.
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- I would like to see AUTOWRAP capability restored to the CONSTRUCT
- statement. Originally it was allowable, but Informix considered it a bug
- and 'fixed' it, which absolutely killed us here, because in our
- applications here we do a lot of querying on fixed-length fields, one value
- at a time. The users never use ranges of data or anything else like that.
- Because of this fix, every field now must be followed with a carriage
- return in order to move to the next field. I don't see why this should be
- an either-or thing. It should be definable in the screen form. If you
- need the query window at the bottom for larger-than-field search criteria,
- specify it in the screen form. But having AUTOWRAP capability restored
- would be a godsend to us.
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