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From: bet@ecsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Help wanted with dBase II on IBM-PC
Message-ID: <2627@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 16:30:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  1 16:30:58 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 5-Jun-84 19:37:35 EDT
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I am new to dBase II, and have run into a problem. I am creating an application
which at one point needs to write out a batch job to run on an IBM mainframe
(I realize this is extremely bizzare; there are extenuating circumstances)
and I need to write lines of SAS code, each of which needs to end with a
semicolon. dBase refuses to write lines ending with semicolons. I am using
"set alternate"; I tried ? " ... ;" and the semicolon got dropped. OK I said;
and tried ? " ...",chr(59) and STILL the semicolon (chr(59)) got dropped.
TEXT
 ...;
ENDTEXT
was even worse; dBase recognized and implemented the concatenation. IS THERE
NO WAY TO QUOTE A SEMICOLON?????
					Bennett Todd
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