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From: marwk@levels.sait.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Clipper
Message-ID: <15688.2742b34f@levels.sait.edu.au>
Date: 15 Nov 90 15:25:03 GMT
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>>Does anybody know the clipper command to flush all buffers to disk?
>>In Foxbase/Foxpro, the command is "FLUSH"
>
> And in Clipper it's "commit"
> Don't you have a manual to look such things up in?
>

As with all manuals, if you do not know what the word is which is used
for the operation you wish to use, you cannot look it up in the manual!!

FLUSHing buffers is DOS, C, UNIX and FOXBASE terminology, so
give the guy an apology, please.

The authors of the indices ought to consider the synonyms of function names
and purposes so that there is far less frustration in learning the capabilities
of a new language.

How many times do people with the manuals read the entire index in order to
find something, only to curse when they see word being used by the authors.

Ray