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From: glassmann@ccavax.camb.com
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: dBASE IV bug in @...GET
Message-ID: <19664.25ffd528@ccavax.camb.com>
Date: 15 Mar 90 22:47:20 GMT
Organization: Cambridge Computer Associates, Inc.
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The following program does a wierd thing.  If you just press ctrl-end while the
cursor is in the first field, the numbers "1,2,3" from the SAY loop are
displayed using 2 columns, as expected.  However, if you go into the second
field (the one with the multiple choice), the numbers are displayed in column
10, as if there was no picture clause.  Anyone have any insight into this?


set talk off

homeprice = 0
magazine = space(8)
clear
@ 14,13 GET homeprice PICTURE "@Z$ 99999999" 
@ 16,13 GET magazine PICTURE "@M NONE,TIME,NEWSWEEK"
read

tmp = 1
do while tmp <= 3
     @ tmp + 4, 1 say tmp picture "99"
     tmp = tmp + 1
enddo

set talk on
return
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Lenny Glassmann                lenny@ccavax.camb.com
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