I. EQUEL/FORMS Examples : Prompt
 
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Prompt
Prompts the user for input.
Examples--prompt statement:
Example 1:
This example prompts the user for an employee's department:
## prompt ("enter the department: ", vdept)
Example 2:
This example prompts for a password before opening a database cursor to view and update employee information:
## prompt noecho ("enter password: ", passwd)
   if (passwd = "rosebud") then
##   open cursor viewemp
   else
##   message "no permission for task"
##   sleep 2
   end if
Example 3:
This example uses a prompt as an interactive message displayed at the top of the screen:
## prompt noecho("an error has occurred [press return]",
##                var)
##   with style=popup
##   (startcolumn=1, startrow=1)