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From: brake@ari-hq1.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Help with MS-DOS
Message-ID: <10051@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 16:48:03 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 18 16:48:03 1985
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I am working on an application using dBASE III and Framework (what did
I do to deserve this?). What I would like to do is pass information
between the two programs via the environment variables. I can get at 
these variables from both programs, but it looks like MS-DOS uses a
stack to hold the variables and after I set them and return to a command
file they return to their old values. Has anyone done this? The documentation
is very sparse and when it exist it is usually wrong. Any help would be
appreciated.

As a personal opinion, neither of these programs are worth the media they
come on. Framework tries to do everything in memory and on this system with
640k I get the nasty message that we are out of memory. What would they have
done on a PDP 8? If they would remove all of the bells and whistles it would
be much nicer. 

The copy protection scheme used by dBase III requires the master disk
to be in drive A whenever the program is started. If you forget, it tells
you  that you have an illegal copy and aborts. I usually have to start it
up twice. When you do get it running, it fills the screen with an obnoxious
copyright notice informing you that you don't own the software only the right
to use it.

Dennis   [BRAKE@ARI-HQ1]


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