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Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 22:57:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 27 22:57:00 1984
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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
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