Date:         Thu, 2 Sep 2010 08:27:19 -0700
Reply-To:     Bruce Weaver <bruce.weaver@hotmail.com>
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From:         Bruce Weaver <bruce.weaver@hotmail.com>
Subject:      Bug: "dataset close all" removes dataset name
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I've just started using v18 for Windoze (and am patched to 18.0.2), and I
think that "dataset close all" is behaving a bit differently than it did in
previous versions.  In particular, it is stripping the dataset name from the
dataset that is active when I issue the "dataset close all" command.  E.g.,

data list free / x (f1.0).
begin data
1 2 3 4 5
end data.
dataset name ds1.

data list free / y (f1.0).
begin data
1 2 3 4 5
end data.
dataset name ds2.

dataset activate ds1.
list.

dataset activate ds2.
list.

dataset activate ds1.
dataset close all.

As expected, ds2 is closed, because ds1 was active when I issued the
"dataset close all" command.  However, the ds1 dataset name is now lost.
This is a nuisance, because it generates an error if/when any of the
following syntax uses that dataset name.

If I change the command to "dataset close ds2", the ds1 dataset name is
preserved.

I can't check if this was happening in v17, because it's no longer
installed.  But I am fairly sure that the dataset name was preserved
following "dataset close all".



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