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From: mikelly@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: dBASE IV bug in @...GET
Summary: re-order the @gets
Message-ID: <1341@ac.dal.ca>
Date: 17 Mar 90 14:30:25 GMT
References: <19664.25ffd528@ccavax.camb.com>
Lines: 17
Organisation: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <19664.25ffd528@ccavax.camb.com>, glassmann@ccavax.camb.com writes:
> 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?

This is one that has been around for a while:

   If the last get field in a read statement is a multiple choice all picture/
function formating is disabled.  Very annoying, and the easiest way I have
found around it is to re-order the @gets so that the last one is NOT a 
multiple choice.  A-T could suggest no other solution when I called the
support line in June last year about it. (maybe there is a better fix
available now ...)

-Mike Kelly