Unknown Function psrch with Brief Emulation in PWB

ID Number: Q63319

1.00 1.10 | 1.00 1.10

MS-DOS | OS/2

Summary:

When using the Brief emulation feature of the Programmer's WorkBench

(PWB) versions 1.0 and 1.1, reinitialization of the TOOLS.INI file

will cause a number of unknown functions to appear when you try to use

them. In short, most of the unknown functions that may be reported are

related to search features such as the psearch switch. The error

message associated with this search feature is commonly "Unknown

function psrch."

This error occurs only after you use the Initialize function.

The Initialize function discards current macro definitions and rereads

the appropriate section of TOOLS.INI. This is not exactly the same as

restarting PWB; the Autostart macro is not executed after Initialize.

The BRIEF emulation depends on the Autostart macro to define the

search functions.

To recover the definition of the missing macros, execute the toggle_re

BRIEF emulation macro (CTRL+F6). To avoid having to remember to

execute this macro, you can add this to the main section of TOOLS.INI:

reinit:=Initialize Autostart

reinit:Shift+F8

Or you can define the macros as follows:

psrch:=arg arg "String to Search for" prompt ->can

psearch => :>can cancel

msrch:=arg arg "String to Search for" prompt ->can

msearch => :>can cancel

qrepl:=arg arg qreplace

srchname:="REoff"