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From: paul@unhtel.unh.edu (Paul S. Sawyer)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Informix RDS questions
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.171013.11111@unhtel.unh.edu>
Date: 4 Feb 91 17:10:13 GMT
References: <AHL.91Jan31095437@saussure.technix.oz.au> <52042@sequent.UUCP>
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In article <52042@sequent.UUCP> lugnut@sequent.UUCP (Don Bolton) writes:
>
>DISPLAY "Error message text" AT 23,1 
>
>be sure to do a DISPLAY "" AT 23,1  at a later point when you want
>the message removed... For some reason, DISPLAY "str" will overwrite
>only the space occupied by "str", yet DISPLAY "" will clear the entire
>line.
>

Try:  DISPLAY "Error message text", "" AT 23,1 

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