Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!bet 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 Article-I.D.: ecsvax.2627 Posted: Fri Jun 1 16:30:58 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Jun-84 19:37:35 EDT Lines: 14 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 ...{decvax,ihnp4,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!bet