Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!xenitec!timk
From: timk@xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Why Does FoxBase Act Like a Virus? (WRONG!!!)
Message-ID: <1989Oct26.010852.11879@xenitec.on.ca>
Date: 26 Oct 89 01:08:52 GMT
Reply-To: timk@xenitec.UUCP (Tim Kuehn)
Organization: TDK Consulting
Lines: 49

steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes:

First off I takes strong exception to relating Foxbase/+ to ANYTHING other than 
the high-quality dbaseIII+ compatable rdms it is. (And especially to viri of 
any sort!!) Another post has explained why things happen in the Mac version
of f-base. I'll touch the following problem:

>I declared a variable public in one program and set it to a
>value, but in the next program I ran the variable was declared
>not to have a value. I'm not strongly motivated to use FoxBase
>if the programming features I'm used to using don't work.
>
>Steve Goldfield

Did you check the procedure your were running in to make sure that it 
didn't have a PRIVATE statement with the same variable name. if you do 
something like this:

public varxyz

	.
	.
	.<.....code here
	.
	.



procedure try_me
private varxyz

q = varxyz


When you run try_me you're going to get an error since the public variable is 
not 'visible' to the local procedure, which has a variable declared private
(ie local) with the same name.

In closing, before you condem a product (particularly one that's had so
many glowing reports from almost unbiased sources :-) ) make SURE of your
claims!!  (You'll get less egg-foo-young on your face that way! :-) )

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