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dbase III questions? [message #86432] Tue, 18 June 2013 23:01
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Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 22:57:00 EST
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Nf-From: uiucuxc!litvin    Nov 27 21:57:00 1984

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Two dBASE III problems that I need help with:

1 - Using an IBM AT (with DOS 3.0), the dBASE III function 'file(filename)'
  doesn't work.  It always returns file_doesn't_exist regardless of whether
  the file exists or not.  Apparently, this problem only exists for DOS 3.0,
  since I tried 2.0 (or 2.1) and the function worked fine (at the expense of
  using the hard disk (which requires 3.0)).  Anyway, aside from horrible
  kludges, is there a way to simulate the function?  Of course, I could
  always wait for the AT supported version of dBASE...

2 - Is there some way to program the function keys to do something useful like
  ALWAYS abort/return from a screen?  Programming them for Ctrl-Q almost
  works, but it doesn't work for the case of GETting several variables and
  the user wishes to abort the READ after entering some data.  What I need
  (I think) is a Ctrl-Q ; RETURN, but this doesn't work.  Apparently, you 
  can't have a literal  literal for the keys.  I could always set the
  keys through DOS, but dBASE would be nicer...
  

  John Litvin
  ihnp4!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!litvin
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