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From: v067qklp@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Danielle T Mazzotta)
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Subject: One (last?) Clipper question
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Date: 4 Dec 90 08:13:07 GMT
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Thanks for the SEEK responses; as it turns out, Dbase does respect SET EXACT 
when doing the comparisons for SEEK but Clipper does not... or perhaps they 
both have a different interpretation of what "exact" means; I believe Dbase 
would not consider two variables equal if their lengths differ when EXACT is 
set on.  No matter.. padding (or non-TRIMming) did the trick.

One last question.. does anyone have any "xbrowse"-type routine already written 
and willing to share that would allow for multiple file-editing using DBEDIT 
(and make it look a bit more powerful like DbaseIII's BROWSE)?  It's probably
fairly trivial (no flames, please) but it'd save lots of testing time (and 
oh-so-slow linking).

Thanks oodles..
--Danielle