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<DIV><FONT color=#000000>Greetings:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000>I am writing an output process to copy data from one
qualifier to another (processing only, no print).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>I am running it on a new HP PC operating under Windows 7, very fast.</DIV>
<DIV>I have a show command that displays account numbers on the screen as it
processes all the accounts. </DIV>
<DIV>The idea is to give the end user something to look at to reassure them that
the process, which takes a while to cycle through all the accounts, is actually
running and not hung up – seeing the account numbers cycle on the screen does
that.</DIV>
<DIV>However, when I initially tested it, nothing showed on the screen.
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<DIV>I went into debug mode to see what was wrong and the show command worked
fine in debug mode (did not make any changes).</DIV>
<DIV>I started to think that maybe the system was so fast that the show output
never made it to the screen before it was wiped out by the next show command –
is that possible?</DIV>
<DIV>So I put a pushkey “[ENTR]” command just before the show command and an
x=waitkey right after it.</DIV>
<DIV>The idea being to actually slow it down a bit.</DIV>
<DIV>Voila! The show command then displayed on the screen just fine.</DIV>
<DIV>But why did I have to do this? And what should I have done?</DIV>
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