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
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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.

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