SET STATUS

Purpose

Determines whether the status bar is displayed on line 23 of the screen

Syntax

SET STATUS ON | OFF | (<expL>)

See Also

SET DIALOG, SET MESSAGE, SET NOTIFY, SET SAFETY, SET SCOREBOARD, SET TALK, SET VERIFY, WAIT

Description

If SET STATUS is ON, then the system displays a status bar on line 23 of the screen. The status bar contains information regarding the current workarea. The status bar is divided into six sections. Whenever possible, you should SET STATUS ON, as the status bar contains a great deal of useful information. If STATUS is OFF, messages output with the SET MESSAGE command are not displayed in the message line.

Example

set status off
use patrons index events, dates, names
set format to bigform
change
set status on
set format to normalform
change

Products

Recital