Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!timk
From: timk@xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn)
Subject: Re: Clipper
Organization: TDK Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON, CANADA
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 90 15:04:47 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.150447.3218@xenitec.on.ca>
References: <1990Nov5.154256.371@bluemtn> <1990Nov05.184139.3864@xenitec.on.ca> <15688.2742b34f@levels.sait.edu.au>

In article <15688.2742b34f@levels.sait.edu.au> marwk@levels.sait.edu.au writes:
>>>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.

Not when a 5 min look-through of the section "Summary of Clipper Commands" 
(Summer '87 pgs 5-5 to 5-19) would have answered his question very quickly 
(especially since the answer to his question was on pg 5-7)

>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.

I appreciate that problem completely. But that's no excuse for not 
examining the command summaries if there's one there. 

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