To display the record being edited, type:

Quantum displays any messages associated with the write or require statement finding the error, but does not automatically display the record itself. It also displays an arrow prompting you for a command. To display the full record in its current state, type display or di. The whole record is displayed underneath a ruler, as with the write statement.

Sometimes it is easier to see the error if you print out the incorrect column or columns separately rather than looking at the whole record. To see a column or field only, just follow the di command with the numbers of the columns you want to see. For example:

displays column 10

displays columns 15 to 30 of card 1

Column fields may be entered as just two column numbers separated by a comma, the parentheses and the C being optional. Thus, the second example could equally well be written:

When a single column is displayed, the individual codes comprising a multicode are shown, but when fields are displayed, a ruler is printed and multicodes appear as asterisks (*). For example:

In the first example, the asterisk represents a multicode, whereas in the second example where only one column is displayed, the codes 1, 5 and 9 are a multicode in column 28.