Write on automatic

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting John Esak (Tue, 7 Jun 2005 19:38:32 -0400):
[...]
> Why did the field get changed when I did the:
>
>     dreport filename -fp "" -a -u
>
> I assumed only the AUTOMATIC table is run in this circumstance. Is that
> right? If so, then wouldn't this mean that the change took place on the
> AUTOMATIC table and the WRITE worked. Or is it some action of dreport
> just running output processing that does it?

Just as the changes made in automatic will be saved by *clerk if you
update/save the record, changes made in automatic will be saved by
*report during the output phase, which runs with the record locked.

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