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Robert Baer wrote:
> R.Wieser wrote:
>> Robert,
>>
>>>    Notice the program stops at line 530 for no good reason,
>>> and all files are closed.
>>
>> Under QBasic 'end' terminates the program.  Are you sure you didn't mean
>> 'end if' there ?
> * In one iteration of the program, that is what was intended..
> 
>>
>> (That all the files are closed could easily be part of PDS'es clean-up
>> activities before actually terminating)
>>
>>> in a section of the program, 6 statement lines got executed
>>> in 1,3,5,2,4,6
>>
>> As you have not posted the involved code and I (we) do not have any 
>> kind of
>> mind-reading capabilities there is nothing I (we) can say about that.
>>
>>>    One would think that a more regimented, line-numbered
>>> program would behave.
>>
>> It certainly enables you to write goto-enabled spagetti code (as in:
>> unreadable/trackable code).   Why do you think most languages dropped the
>> 'goto' and/or strongly advice you NOT to use it ?  :-)
>>
>>
>> Basic bug-hunting most often boils down to isolating the problem by 
>> removing
>> everything that does /not/ make the problem disappear (and sometimes
>> replacing variable and/or human input by fixed stuff).   If you're lucky
>> you're left with a single line. :-)
> * Now THAT would be rather nice..do my taxes in one line...
> 
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rudy Wieser
>

   Program (highly revised) listing attached.
   Partial copy of output:
<h2 id="A:"><B>A:</B></h2>
<h3>
READSJ
COPYSJ
     &nbsp; &nbsp;able
     &nbsp; &nbsp;<a 
href="downhole-measurements.html?find=able">Downhole Measurements</a>
<br>
READSJ    'above' record GONE
READSJ
COPYSJ
     &nbsp; &nbsp;
     &nbsp; &nbsp;absorbers
     &nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="vendor-profile.html?find=absorbers">Vendor 
Profile</a>
<br>
READSJ    'absorbing' record GONE
READSJ
COPYSJ
     &nbsp; &nbsp;
     &nbsp; &nbsp;absorption
     &nbsp; &nbsp;<a 
href="downhole-measurements.html?find=absorption">Downhole Measurements</a>
     &nbsp; &nbsp;<a 
href="https://www.hamamatsu.com/resources/pdf/etd/PMT_handbook_v3aE.pdf?find=absorption">Photomultiplier 
Tubes Basics</a>
<br>
READSJ    'accelerate' record GONE
READSJ
COPYSJ
     &nbsp; &nbsp;
     &nbsp; &nbsp;accelerator
     &nbsp; &nbsp;<a 
href="downhole-measurements.html?find=accelerator">Downhole Measurements</a>
<br>
**END COPY**

   So there are two problems:
1) NO "debug" output from the git-go
    FOR LWD = 1 TO 164      'LWD keyword file size
     GOSUB READIKW       '**NO "READIKW" PRINTOUT

2) Skips every other SJ keyword.

   Comments?
   Thanks.

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Re: Program execution problem "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2020-08-29 13:46 +0200
  Re: Program execution problem Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-31 15:45 -0700
    Re: Program execution problem Rev1 Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-08-31 21:32 -0700
      Re: Program execution problem Rev1 "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2020-09-01 10:02 +0200
    Re: Program execution problem "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2020-09-01 09:35 +0200
      Re: Program execution problem Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2020-09-01 13:30 -0700
        Re: Program execution problem "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2020-09-02 08:43 +0200

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