Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!geovision!pt
From: pt@geovision.uucp (Paul Tomblin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Clipper
Message-ID: <1271@geovision.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 90 14:01:53 GMT
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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!!

Maybe I'm just weird, but when I get a new package, or an upgrade for an old
package, I READ the manual cover to cover to discover their terminology.
While I may not remember everything, it does give me a "leg up" when I
want to look something up.

"Now what was that command called?  I know it was either FLUSH or COMMIT, so
why don't I look up both?..."

BTW "commit" is SQL terminology, although in a slightly different context
(In clipper, you can't rollback if you haven't committed, etc.) so don't 
flame them for not using YOUR terminology.
-- 
Paul Tomblin, Department of Redundancy Department.       ! My employer does 
I'm not fat..... I'm metabolically challenged.           ! not stand by my
Would someone please tell me what diddy-wah-diddy means? ! opinions.... 
pt@geovision.gvc.com or {cognos,uunet}!geovision!pt      ! Me neither.