Tally Genicom 6600 manual Buffered Form Repeats, Buffered Form Copy

Chapter 6 Buffered Forms

Buffered Form Repeats

Two types of Repeat commands are allowed within a buffered form: the Buffered Form Copy command and the Buffered Form Repeat command. Both the Copy and Repeat commands serve to repeat a sequence of Create <data> a certain number of times. The difference between them is that the number of times a Copy command repeats data is determined in the Create command sequence, where as the number of times the Repeat command repeats data is determined in the Execute command sequence.

Buffered Form Copy

The Buffered Form Copy command is used to repeat a sequence of commands and data within a buffered form Create <data> sequence. The command for this is:

Command ^Cnn-<data>^Z^-

Arguments

^C Copy Command

nnThe number of times the data is to be repeated (01 - 99).

<data>	The data to be repeated.
^Z^-	End-of-Copy Terminator

Enough data must be included in the Buffered Form Execute to satisfy the copy counts in the form. Data can be different for each copy. The following control codes take on special functions within a Buffered Form Copy/Repeat command:

^-	(Caret hyphen) Fills the rest of the current data field
	with spaces.
^*	(Caret asterisk) Causes all unfilled character
	positions in all data fields to be filled with blanks up
	to the ^Z (End-of-Copy/Repeat) command.
^,	(Caret comma) Causes all unfilled character
	positions in all data fields to be filled with blanks up
	to the ^Z (End-of-Copy/Repeat) command, and all
	character positions in any remaining data fields will
	be filled with blanks until the copy count is satisfied.

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