Write on automatic

[George Simon]

>> What happens if you run the same report without the WRITE?

>Excellent question George... But I almost didn't see it because somehwo it
>was indented with a > as if it was part of previous content... ????
>Anyway, I ran the report as above without the WRITE on the auto table...
and
>BANG! field 1 on every record is changed to "14".

>What this seems/appears to say is that any assignments made on the
AUTOMATIC
>table are written and stored to the file during *report. Certainly does not
>work this way in *clerk.
That has been my experience.  Any assignment made in automatic gets written
to disk when using *report without the need for a "write", but not in
*clerk.