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From: root@yale.UUCP (Celray Stalk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: DBMAN 5, INPUT COMMAND, SUSPENDED FILES
Message-ID: <55815@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 89 14:05:22 GMT
References: <ID4654.D890403.T171227.CHIASSA@UDEM>
Reply-To: fischer-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (Michael Fischer)
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT  06520-2158
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In article <ID4654.D890403.T171227.CHIASSA@UDEM> CHIASSA@UDEM.BITNET (Alyre CHIASSON) writes:
>
> My knowledge of dBMAN 5 extends to only a few days but there
> appears to be a bug in the INPUT <PROMPT> TO <VAR> command. It
> truncates decimal numbers to intergers. This would appear to be a
> bug to me as they give "price" as a <VAR> in one of their sample
> problems. Any ideas?

I tried this and found the same thing.  If you add a "PICTURE" clause
to the command, you are even prompted for the fractional part, but
still the result is truncated to an integer.  It sure looks like a
bug.

> Also I would really like to known how to get out of Err30, "Too
> many suspended program files". The manual says use <ResumePrg> or
> <KillPrg>. I have been unable to find any program with the prefix
> "Resume" or "Kill".

<ResumePrg> and <KillPrg> are generic names for keys.  On the ST, they
are Control-R and Control-K respective.  See page 61 of the Supplemental
Manual that comes with dBMAN V.
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