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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:	OLD ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:	Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:	IOSG::PYE

Created:	Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:	Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4343
Total number of notes:	18308

2595.0. "Garbage from merge_list+append" by SUOSW3::HAMANN () Tue Apr 20 1993 15:15

    Hi,
    
    I want to produce a WPL-document from a script by using merge_list
    and append functions. I am working on VMS 5.5 and ALL-IN-1 2.4.
    
    The desired target document should consist of a repeated sequence
    of some header texts followed by one data text.
    
    I merge_list the header documents with their data and have them 
    appended by merge_list to the target document.
    
    Then I use append to add one more document to the target, but the
    target gets garbled: the last line of the appended document comes
    after the next merged header document or intermixed with it.
    
    Is this a known bug? Would it be necessary to provide a script
    and some texts for further investigation?
    
    Thank you for your advice.
    
    Klaus Hamann

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2595.1	Provide a script	IOSG::NEWLAND	Richard Newland, IOSG, REO2-G/L2	`Thu Apr 22 1993 14:53`	16
	Please provide a script. The MERGE_LIST function is an API interface to the WPS-PLUS List Processor, and has List-file, Form-file, Out-file and Speficiation-file parameters. The MERGE and MERGE_LINE functions are the API interface to the ALL-IN-1 list-processing facility, which is not the same as the WPS-PLUS List Processor. One of the parameters to MERGE is the header file. You say that you 'merge_list the header documents with their data and have them appended by merge_list to the target document'. I'm confused because you are describing MERGE parameters but are using the MERGE_LIST function. Richard
2595.2	location of stuff	SUOSW3::HAMANN		`Mon Apr 26 1993 11:22`	11
	Hi Richard, I put a saveset MERGE_GARBAGE.BCK into the DECNET default directory of node SUOSW3::. It contains the Script, the required WPL-Files to reproduce the error and the garbled output from my execution. Thank you for your effort. Klaus Hamann
2595.3	Worked on V3.0	IOSG::NEWLAND	Richard Newland, IOSG, REO2-G/L2	`Mon Apr 26 1993 16:44`	7
	I ran your test script and files on a V3 system. The created TARGET.WPL file looked like your CORRECT_TARGET.WPL file. It would seem that the problem was fixed in V3.0. Richard
2595.4	But I need V2.4 for some time	SUOSW3::HAMANN		`Tue Apr 27 1993 12:03`	13
	Richard, thank you for your effort. It is nice to learn, that the problem will disappear in the future, but I have no chance to get the customer to upgrade soon. (problems with german LOTUS) Could you check on a 2.4 system? Maybe we missed some patch? Thanks again Klaus