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The ability to set the VAL field in a .db file was only added to most record types relatively recently (i.e. since the Record Reference Manual was last updated). Having an initializable .VAL field is obviously necessary to be able to initialize the two string record types with a constant string - it is impossible for the DOL/INP field processing to distinguish between an initial constant string that just happens to be identical to a CA channel name, and a CA link to a named channel. I'm not sure why this wasn't done originally for all the record types, but it wasn't. We have to maintain the old constant link type behaviour for backwards compatibility reasons, although it's possible that we might deprecate and eventually remove the constant link type. - Andrew -- Dear God, I didn't think orange went with purple until I saw the sunset you made last night. That was really cool. - Caro
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ANJ, 10 Aug 2010 |
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