Help System (web edition)

Without precaution, results of Survo operations may overlap other
operations or important text in the edit field. Such nuisances
are avoided by using fence lines of form
*########## (# and at least 10 dots) and activating commands with
a '#' in front of the command word.
If the #'s cover the visible line, the fence line is displayed
as a continuous single line.

A simple and safe way of creating a fence structure for a command
is to press F1 # when the cursor is in the first position of the command
line and the command starts from that position.

By default, the current edit field is saved as #SURVO.EDT in the current
data path when a #command is activated. Then the status before
activation is restored afterwards simply by activating LOAD #SURVO.
This precaution is removed by setting the system parameter fence_save=0.
If the fence structure is incorrect (fence line missing), an error
message is displayed. This setting is removed by setting fence_warning=0.
Results obtained by #commands can be removed from lines L1-L2 by
DELETEL L1,L2,FENCE

Example:
*#MINSTAT DECA,CUR+1 / VARS=Height,Weight
*##########
*Important text follows....
*
*When the #MINSTAT command above is activated, the results will be
*inserted between the command line and the following fence line:
*
*#MINSTAT DECA,CUR+1 / VARS=Height,Weight
*Basic statistics of data DECA N=48
*Variable   mean      stddev          N  minimum   maximum
* Height    186.9583  5.090493       48  173.0000  198.0000
* Weight    85.56250  6.847600       48  68.00000  105.0000
*##########
*Important text follows....