[daip] TVFLG

[Eric Greisen]

Lynn D. Matthews writes:
 > A second flagging woe is that I find this new mode of TVFLG (where it
 > keeps creating new FG tables with each pass) to be problematic.

I'm sorry that you do not like the revised TVFLG - unfortunately, the
users have come to expect the behavior which TVFLG now has.

 > 
 > For example, I often do multiple passes through a data set and wish all of
 > the results to end up in a table with a specific FG number for
 > record-keeping purposes.

    Note that TVFLG=0 always gets the highest for flagging the data
and for things like PRTAB as well.

 > 
 > In addition, when one does a tget on TVFLG, the old flag version is still
 > specified and hence applied, whereas any flags from a previous iteration
 > of TVFLG will have been written to a higher table and seemingly been
 > "lost". This creates a large potential for mistakes and confusion,
 > particularly with multi-source files.

I would use TVFLG=0 at all times then.

Eric Greisen

I will look at the UVFLG issue.