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In FILE SHOW, the fields are displayed in formats given in the field
descriptions in the form (###.##) . To edit these formats, use FILE
STATUS and FILE UPDATE. If no format is given for a particular field,
the default format is:
           ###  for 1 byte numeric field,
        ######  for 2 byte numeric field,
   #######.###  for 4 and 8 byte numeric fields,
   entire field width for a string field.
Missing values appear always as empty fields.
If the data value exceeds the limits given by the current format,
an empty field terminated by '*' will be displayed instead.
To see the true value of such a field, touch it by the cursor. Then
the value will be displayed on the top line.


Setting limits for values:
When editing numerical fields, extra limits may be set by the limit
specifications of the form {lower_limit,upper_limit} in the field
descriptions. These limits can be altered by FILE UPDATE.

The values of a string field can be limited to a predetermined set
by giving the permitted values as a list of the form [value1,value2,...]
in the field description.
For example, [A,B,C] tells that 'A','B', and 'C' are the only possible values.

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