Patterns

[Chris Sharman]

>Speaking of using patterns in Select mode, what do you do when the pattern
>you want to enter is longer than the field on the screen?  I've always found
>it very irritating when trying to enter a complex pattern in a short field
>and it keeps beeping at me because I'm trying to exceed the length of the
>field.  Is there any way around this?

The field statement has a size clause, which will let you choose any size for
it, irrespective of the data item size. So you could have data size 4, in a
field size 12. You might want a 'for ,4' too to stop it taking too much space.

Chris
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