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From: ugcharle@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Charles Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: dbase error level programmining
Keywords: Dbase, error programming
Message-ID: <7915@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: 13 Jul 89 17:08:05 GMT
Reply-To: ugcharle@sunybcs.UUCP (Charles Johnson)
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I'm doing modifications to someone elses program and it has the following
section of code that was causing it to "abend"

	:============================================:

	DO CASE
		CASE ERROR() = 5
		@xx,yy Say "record num > # of records"
		on error
		close database
		OTHERWISE
		@xx,yy SAY "error has occured"
		err_msg = message()
		@xx,yy SAY "error was"+err_msg
		close database index
		on error
	RETURN TO MASTER


	:+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++:
I understand what it is trying to do but I can't find anything about
the message function or the error value. I'm not sure if they are
coming from DOS or something within DBASE.
Any help, ideas, suggestions or pointers to information would be
greatly appreciated

thanks in advance