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      <h2>ERRORS</h2>
      <p class="ex">SET ERRORS &lt;ABORT | CONTINUE | EXIT&gt;</p>
      <p>The ERRORS set option determines how OdxSQL behaves when an error is 
        encountered. The default setting for ERRORS is ABORT.</p>
      <p class="indent">ABORT is specifically for use with a USE file. With this 
        setting, an error will cause OdxSQL to stop executing the USE file commands 
        and return to the OdxSQL interactive prompt.</p>
      <p class="indent">CONTINUE is specifically for use with a USE file. With 
        this setting, OdxSQL will continue to process the remaining commands in 
        the USE file after an error is encountered.</p>
      <p class="indent">EXIT causes the OdxSQL utility to terminate when an error 
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      <h6>ABORT</h6>
      <p class="ex"> &gt; set errors abort<br>
        &gt; use useme.txt<br>
        &gt; connect order.env<br>
        *E* Environment requested is nonexistent (C:\omnidex\Demodata\order.env)</p>
      <p>OdxSQL stopped processing the commands in the use file.</p>
      <h6>CONTINUE</h6>
      <p class="ex">&gt; set errors continue<br>
        &gt; use useme.txt<br>
        &gt; connect order.env<br>
        *E* Environment requested is nonexistent (C:\omnidex\Demodata\order.env)<br>
        &gt; ;&lt;section=secname&gt;<br>
        &gt; open cursor<br>
        *E* This statement requires a connection to an environment file<br>
        &gt; cd c:\omnidex\bin<br>
        c:\omnidex\bin<br>
        &gt; ;&lt;end_section&gt;<br>
        &gt; select company from customers where state='co'<br>
        *E* This statement requires a connection to an environment file<br>
        &gt; ;&lt;COMMON&gt;<br>
        &gt; DISCONNECT<br>
        *E* Invalid instance<br>
        &gt; ;&lt;END_COMMON&gt;<br>
        &gt;</p>
      <p>Because ERRORS was set to CONTINUE, OdxSQL attempted to process the rest 
        of the commands in the USE file, even though the connect failed. More 
        errors occurred on commands that required a connection.</p>
      <h6>EXIT</h6>
      <p class="ex">&gt; set errors exit<br>
        &gt; use useme.txt<br>
        &gt; connect order.env<br>
        *E* Environment requested is nonexistent (C:\omnidex\Demodata\order.env)</p>
      <p class="ex">C:\omnidex\Demodata&gt;</p>
      <p>Because ERRORS was set to EXIT, the OdxSQL utility was terminated when 
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