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From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: clipper 5.0
Keywords: GET system.
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.001722.189@pegasus.com>
Date: 22 Apr 91 00:17:22 GMT
References: <2907@maestro.htsa.aha.nl>
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
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In article <2907@maestro.htsa.aha.nl> bobgo@maestro.htsa.aha.nl (Bob Goedkoop) writes:

>I have a problem with Clipper 5.0, there hasn't been anyone able to help me so  far.

>	I made a record with DBU, one of the fields in the record is a character        field of 180 characters. This field has to be chopped in 3 lines of 60   	characters but they have to keep working as if they were one line.

>	Memofields can't be used and i don't want to use 3 separated fields of  	60 characters each.
>
Bob,

I can't quite figure out what it is that you want to do... do you mean that
you need it "chopped" for display and editing on the screen ?  You might have
to consider memoedit() but remember that memoedit() can edit any string not justmemo fields.  One problem is that it auto allocates memory as a user types and
that may not be ideal.  You can always truncate the string when they return
control but it's still not perfect.

By the way, 5.01 has officially been released and the update is free to all
registered users of 5.0.  All the known bugs have been fixed, the debugger has
been improved, additional features added to TBROWSE and GET objects, VMM swaps
less frequently and it's a pleasure to use.

tom leylan
(ex-Senior Systems Analyst / Nantucket Corporation)