Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!vuwcomp!dsiramd!csnz!paul From: paul@csnz.nz (Paul Gillingwater) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: British date in dBase III Message-ID: <19@csnz.nz> Date: 9 May 88 09:37:17 GMT Reply-To: paul@csnz.UUCP (Paul Gillingwater) Organization: Computer Sciences of New Zealand, Wellington, NZ Lines: 28 In article <1251@its63b.ed.ac.uk> dougie@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Dougie Nisbet) writes: >There is a command SET DATE BRITISH which allows use to use british >type dates, once we have started dBASE, but it does not seem to be possible >to insert the command DATE = BRITISH into the CONFIG.DB file. Try this in your CONFIG.DB: COMMAND=SET DATE BRITISH I find it better to create an INIT.CMD file with such commands in it, e.g. SET DATE BRITISH. Then put COMMAND=DO INIT into CONFIG.DB. -- Paul Gillingwater, Senior Consultant Call my private BBS - Magic Tower, Computer Sciences of New Zealand Ltd NZ +64 4 753561 V21/V23 8N1 24hrs P.O.Box 929, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND Soon: V22/V22bis/Bell 103/Bell 212A Vox: +64 4 846194, Fax: +64 4 843924 "Scott me up, Beamie!"-Lounge Suit Larry