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About the Procedure Editor

When you start the Progress character client, the Procedure Editor is the first tool that you see. The Procedure Editor is a text editor that allows you to enter, edit, and save text in text files. The Procedure Editor is your hub for most programming tasks in the Progress toolset. You can use the Procedure Editor to create, compile, and run Progress procedures. A procedure is a series of Progress language statements that perform a desired data processing task.

Figure 2–1 shows the Procedure Editor main display.

Figure 2–1: Procedure Editor Main Display

The main display of the Procedure Editor contains several features:


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