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Conference ilbbak::ibi_focus

Title:	FOCUS, from INFORMATION BUILDERS

Moderator:	ZAYIUS::BROUILLETTE

Created:	Thu Feb 19 1987
Last Modified:	Mon May 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	615
Total number of notes:	1779

480.0. "Different behaviour of V6.1 when holding with format DIF" by INBAL::OFER_A (Here we go again ...) Sun Nov 10 1991 10:59

	I hope somebody has already got the answer for this one ...

	After we have upgraded our FOCUS to V6.1 we get the following 
	behaviour which is apparently different to the previous versions .
	When issuing the following command : 
	
	ON TABLE HOLD AS A FORMAT DIF

	The hold file now caontaing null characters in place where it used 
	to have blank characters.

	I assume it's some global SET command which has a different default
	value, can anybody help me on that ?


		Thanks,
				Ofer.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
480.1	Preserving control characters	EVTDD1::CARRIERE	Jean-Claude Carriere	`Tue Nov 12 1991 03:22`	15
	One thing people complain often, was the fact they were unable to embedded control character within their reports. One of the latest FOCUS release provides as a new feature the fact that FOCUS will not replace non-printable character by blanks. I think this was introduce in 6.1 (but I'm not 100% sure) Is this specific to DIF or do you get the same result with HOLD FORMAT DOC ? Unfortunately as far as I remember there are no SET command to prevent this. Jean-Claude.
480.2	SET HOLDD=ALPHA?	SOLVIT::SMOLINSKI_J		`Tue Nov 19 1991 11:07`	3
	What about SET HOLDD = ALPHA