More specific question on @SK

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Sun Aug 14 07:13:48 PDT 2011


----- Original Message -----
> From: flowersoft at compuserve.com

> I wrote an article for the filePro cookBook in February of 1993 called At
> When Entering Limbo and certainly at that time, and probably since it very
> early days (if not always) filePro @sk has understood INSL and DELL and
> every other special key code. It probably difficult to detect them because
> many of them did not take you out of the field. I think there was only 1
> user key (F8) then. F3 and F4 did nothing except insert and delete lines
> while in processing.

Correct: the code which populates @SK did not recognize at that time -- or,
let me phrase it differently: at that time, INSL and DELL were not defined
as function keys which exited a field in dclerk -- that was later changed, in 
4.8, I believe, but that was long after I cared.

Cheers,
-- jra
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