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From: carters@tektronix.UUCP (Carter Stein)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: JOIN "anomaly" in dBASE III
Message-ID: <3836@tektronix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 13:24:56 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 12 13:24:56 1984
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The dBASE III join command does not work as documented (pg. 4-60 of dBASE III
users manual).

The problem is that ALIAS names after the FIELDS keyword are not recognized by
dBASE III.  For example:

                                                        ? 
JOIN WITH  TO <.dbf-file> FOR  FIELDS ->

causes a syntax error.  The question mark above, marks the location of the 
syntax error.

The work around for this problem is as follows:
	1.  Issue the JOIN command without using the FIELDS keyword.
	2.  USE the resulting table
	3.  Issue a "COPY TO  FIELDS " command to
	    create the table with the needed fields.
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By the way,  does anyone know where I can get a copy of the program PCFILE3?

Please e-mail responses to me at tektronix!carters.

Thanks

carter stein