Platform is AREV 3.03. When you copy a record you usually see the message "1 item copied" or something like that. Also, if you try to copy a record to a file where it already exists and don't use the (O option, you get a message like "Record not copied as it already exists in the file." I have a system where those messages do not appear yet the copy goes through even though the record is already on file, i.e. even without the (O option the existing record gets overwritten by the new copied record. The messages appear to be in SYSMESSAGES. Is SYSOBJ corrupted? In most other respects, the system appears to work normally. Any suggestions as to how to fix will be greatly appreciated.

Type SET-OPTIONS from TCL. If "O" appears as one of the options that is always implied, then that is your problem.

Victor, thanks for the response. The message for SET-OPTIONS is 'The following options are now implied: ("")'

Any other ideas. Thanks

Jack,

Usually where I have seen this is where the "E" option is used with SETOPTIONS to suppress the page eject at the beginning of a print job. As a global option, the COPY command sees it and supresses messages. Other commands have an "E" option to do different things.

Don't know if this is your problem, but hope it gives you something to look at.

Jim,

Thanks for the reply. I do set the "E" option on logon and do this at many of my customers sites. Haven't had the problem before but it is always something to keep in mind. Reloading a bunch of the system files today such as SYSOBJ and SYSVIEWS seemed to clear up the problem and I'm still setting the "E" option. These types of problems are so difficult to resolve and often you fix them without ever really knowing exactly what was wrong in the first place.

Thanks again for taking time to answer.

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