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From: ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Clarification to Simple File Transfers
Message-ID: <25771FA1.20234@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 2 Dec 89 01:04:32 GMT
Reply-To: ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch)
Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS
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This is a carification to my previous posting about moving an ASCII download
file into Dbase III plus.

I would like to know how to change the structure of a database from *within*
a running program.  I guess I wasn't clear about this, because I got one letter
advising me to use the modify structure command.  I believe this command puts
you into the full screen editor mode (that's what happens on my machine).
Can you use this command to allow the *program* to change the structure of a
database?  I don't think so, but what do I know!  That is the problem, how to
allow a program to alter the structure of a database.

If this is not possible, please refer to my previous question for a complete
discription of my problem to see if you see some workaround.

Thanks For Your Help
Alex Jauch
UCI, AIS
ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu


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