[daip] A simple request for PRTAB

[Craig Walker]

Great.  Thanks.

Cheers,

Craig


On 09/16/2014 02:34 PM, Eric Greisen wrote:
> On 09/15/2014 11:47 AM, Craig Walker wrote:
>> PRTAB has two inputs for controlling how many entries for a column are
>> shown - NCOUNT and BDROP/EDROP.  To restrict what is shown, one must
>> specify something for both.  If either defaults, everything is shown,
>> not matter how the other is set.  This means that you can never show,
>> say, the entries for IF's 5-7 without getting IF 1 too because NCOUNT
>> must be set and it starts at 1.  If you just simply want to restrict the
>> size of the print with NCOUNT, you must also specify non-default values
>> for BDROP and/or EDROP or you still get everything.
>>
>> I suggest that, if one parameter is specified, that the other not take
>> the default.  If both are specified, then go ahead and conform to both
>> requests as it does now (I can see reasons for that).
>>
>> While at it, there is an unfortunate interaction with DOFLAG between
>> CALIB and PRTAB.  A value good for one is not good for the other and I
>> keep tripping over it.  PRTAB aborts with DOFLAG set to reasonable CALIB
>> values (>1).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Craig
>>
>
> I did more or less what you ask - tomorrow should fix things.
>
> Eric Greisen

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