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From: jgb@prism.gatech.EDU (James G. Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: So does Clipper do it ?
Message-ID: <29737@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 23 May 91 23:48:15 GMT
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In article <1991May23.182713.5914@beach.csulb.edu> ericp@beach.csulb.edu (Eric Pederson  CSE) writes:
>If you use INDEX ON stat_bar(expression) and
>FUNCTION stat_bar
>PARAMETERS X
> ....
>RETURN X
>
>You don't have to worry about the type of expression.

Yes, BUT.... Now your index file has "stat_bar(expression)" and will really
die if used in any program that does not have stat_bar() defined (such as
DBU).  The idea was to keep a valid .NTX file expression.  I'm cleaning up my 
code that does it... I'll submit it tomorrow.

-J Baker
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BAKER,JAMES G - Undergraduate Lab Instructor, School of Electrical Engineering
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