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AID Language Supports
The AID Language of Unibase by DMAC, release 7.44i, now supports showing snippets from different tiff files concurrently on the CRT screen. Using the format defined in the fall of 1994, a user can refer to the snippet associated with the batch on a channel by the expression The first expression means show at the start of row four (where the screen support 24 rows, thus 4/24's of the way down) the snippet associated with field three of the batch on channel 1.show <loc 4> {1;3}. The second expression means show at the twelfth row 20/80 of the way across the screen, the snippet associated with field 22 of the current referenced batch on channel four. Uses show Rules The rules for when the displayed field is cleared are the same for any show statement. The beta users of this feature are toying with the idea of adding additional ways of clearing the snippet. Standalone Exists Also A standalone program, snippi, is also available for use in a system call when the tif files and related snippets have not been associated with a Unibase batch.
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