Re: OFF TOPICS db3 report

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Please, I cant send you private email...???
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Date sent:   	Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:36:06 -0400
From:      	"Patricia M. Godfrey" 
To:       	xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject:    	Re: OFF TOPICS db3 report
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> 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.
>
> --
> Patricia M. Godfrey
> PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx
>