HP RPG/iX Utilities Reference Manual (30318-90006)

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NOTE Steps 6 and 7 may be skipped if you press softkey F7, which puts
you in Line Mode instead of Block Mode.
Recovery from a Transmission Error
Transmission errors usually bring to the screen a nonsensical clutter of characters. The keyboard works
but characters, such as escape characters, appear on the screen erroneously. They cause incorrect displays
of forms in block mode.
To recover from the effects of transmission errors do the following:
1. If you are in Scroll set (SHOW mode), press F1 to reset the
special function keys to normal SHOW mode functions (Master set).
2. Press F8 to display the main menu.
3. Press F8 a second time to refresh the main menu.
You can also press F7 to enter Line Mode and reenter your command.
Recovering Echo After It Is Lost
When your screen remains blank everytime you type a key, your terminal may have lost its echo. You can
recover it in one easy step.
1. Press the ESCAPE key followed by the colon (:).
Recovery from :EOD
If you accidentally or intentionally enter :EOD (End of Data) while in Line mode, RISE will immediately
terminate. Your KSAM work file will not be purged.
If you were editing a copy of a permanent file (TEXT) or had created a new work file (ADD), you can locate
the work file by typing the following:
:LISTF W@######,2
See section A, above, for a discussion of this file designator.
To recover this work file, you simply TEXT in the KSAM data file and KEEP it to a sequential permanent
file. Then you use the KSAMUTIL to purge the KSAM work file with the name located using :LISTF as
described above.
If you entered :EOD while editing a file directly (FILE), no harm is done, and the :EOD operates like the
EXIT command. Your changes to the file will be permanent.