Re: OFF TOPICS db3 report

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Richard Henderson wrote:
> If you are still using dBase3, I suggest that you just learn how to
> write the report command code based on the application of origin.
Well, of course, but I assumed that he needed something
beyond the capabilities of dBaseIII (which I don't
think could link more than two tables). DBase 5 for
DOS, which I have been using for years, can generate
REPORTS with several linked fields, and yes, you can
use Xy as your programming editor and get the dBase
code to output Xy formatting codes in the data stream
(I think I detailed an example of this a year or so
ago; Xysearch on dBase). But on-screen reports or forms
(e.g., for data entry) involving more than two linked
tables are full of gotchas, even in dBase 5.

>>...very rewarding<<
Absolutely. The first time I got a dbase (it was
SRInfo, a dBase III clone) program really doing
something that earned me some $$, I felt like Edmond
Dantès after emerging from the Château d'If: The world
is mine! Database is what computers are all about;
everything else is lagniappe.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx