set-compat command

The set-compat command allows a user (port), or the global environment, to be set to a particular Pick compatible environment. Using this command allows functionality to be added to D3 that is specific to a particular Pick compatible environment.

Syntax

set-compat {environment} {(g}

Parameter(s)

`environment`	AP	Sets to Advanced Pick compatibility
	D3	Sets to D3 compatibility (default)
	Sequoia	Sets to Sequoia compatibility
	Ultimate	Sets to Ultimate compatibility
g	Sets the compatibility setting globally

Compatibility Features for Advanced Pick

Allows updating the tcl-stack directly, without using a formal update procedure.

Note: Updating the tcl-stack using the Advanced Pick compatibility setting provides faster, more efficient updates. However, the D3 7.3 and above formal update features, such as updating the transaction log, hot-backup, statistics, and other counters are not available in this mode. This can cause aborts when reading an item through FlashBASIC, or through certain stack update sequences.
When an AQL command is executed using an exploding select-list, the exploding value positions are ignored.
Alters the sort order for the sort command in the following manner: the case command setting is ignored and the sort order is based on whether or not the file was created with the s (case-Sensitive) option.

Compatibility Features for Sequoia

Null values always sort before numeric and alphanumeric values.
When running the AQL grand-total modifier with the text option, text displays with no column width limits.
Any phantoms running under this setting will terminate with an error, if stopped by an input statement.
The BASIC Ultimate flavored execute supports Sequoia ordering of parameters.

Compatibility Features for Ultimate

Access date conversions are displayed in the upper case when the TCL case is set to sensitive.
Null values always sort before numeric and alphanumeric values.
Suppresses [202] not on file messages when selecting from an active list.
If a PROC calls a BASIC program which generates an error, the line number of the BASIC program will be placed in the PROC’s secondary buffer, following the error number.
The print job kill process prints aborted on the printer, if the job is terminated with sp-kill.
The BASIC compiler allows spaces when using Ultimate flavored executes.
The restore processor recognizes Ultimate tape labels and Ultimate items greater than 32 KB in length.
Input stacked with the data statement is not lost after running a BASIC execute statement.