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Results User’s Guide
for UNIX


Default Forms

If you select the AUTO build option or the SEMI build option, Results automatically determines all defaults. However, after the initial build completes, you can change defaults using the Administration module. This section describes how Results determines default settings.

Results assumes a screen size of 80 characters wide by 24 lines high, with 17 of the 24 lines available to users. When you build your query interface form, it must fit within these constraints.

If you select AUTO during an initial build, Results builds an interface according to the following rules:

To see if Results dropped any fields while building a form, look in the query log (QL) file. (See the "Logging Initial Build Information" section in this chapter for more information about this file.)

For each query form, Results creates a procedure file that contains the actual query procedure, an include file called by the procedure, and a form definition file for the query. It places these files in the current directory, but you can move them anywhere in the PROPATH.

By default, the output filenames are filename.p, filename.i, and filename.f, where filename is the first eight characters of the filename. If there is a procedure anywhere in the PROPATH with the same name, the new output file takes the name qryxxxxx.p, qryxxxxx.i, and qryxxxxx.f, where xxxxx represents an integer value that is unique to the PROPATH. When renaming occurs, the change is logged to the QL file. The “Logging Initial Build Information” section describes the QL file.


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