公开(公告)号：DE3275140D1

公开(公告)日：1987-02-19

申请号：DE3275140

申请日：1982-04-07

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： ELLIOTT JO ANN ,  MCINROY JOHN WISE ,  WALDO PAUL DAVID

IPC: G06F15/00 ,  G06F12/00 ,  G06F17/21 ,  G06F15/20

Abstract: An improved method is disclosed for providing to the operator of an interactive text processing system a displayed summary confirming the effect of requested changes to the field order in an existing file of spatially related data stored in the system prior to creation of new file. The method involves simultaneously displaying to the operator on one screen the header portions of the existing source file and of the destination file, and causing the data in predetermined fields of each header to be displayed in a manner which is different than the manner in which the data in the remaining fields of said headers is displayed, so as to manifest to the operator similar treatment by the system of the data in both headers which is similarly displayed. The header portion of the source file is displayed such that those fields which are not to be copied into the destination file are reverse video displayed, while those fields which are to be copied to the destination file are in normal display. The resulting display then provides the opportunity for the operator to confirm the correctness of the interactively entered instructions prior to actual creation of the new file.