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From: roger@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Boissonnas)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Question on DBASE 3+ ( or DBASE 4)
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Date: 12 Jul 90 12:27:40 GMT
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Reply-To: roger@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Boissonnas)
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In article <36888@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> cslui@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Chi Shing (John) Lui) writes:
>I have a question in DBASE 3+...
>
>I know that if I have to access a database file (ex: test.dbf) I have
>to issue a command :  USE TEST.DBF
>
>But what happens if I want to have the user specify the database file they
>want to open?  I store the user input in a memory variable.  Now, how can
>I open that databse file ?

use &variable

& is the "macro" function, discussed in your manual at the beginning of the
section that describes all of dBase's functions.


Roger Boissonnas                                    roger@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu
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