Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!cbatt!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Need Help!!! Message-ID: <2485@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-May-87 23:23:12 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.2485 Posted: Fri May 8 23:23:12 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 10-May-87 08:45:44 EDT References: <1468@leadsv.UUCP> <803@killer.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.databases Distribution: na Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 35 As quoted from <803@killer.UUCP> by tony@killer.UUCP (Tony Holden): +--------------- | in article <1468@leadsv.UUCP>, falsken@leadsv.UUCP (Gary Falsken) says: | > I need to get a hold of the company that makes a database called | > Filepro. It runs on various machines. Also, If you have used such | > please tell me your opinion. | > | | You have temp. variables, but they can only be 1 or 2 characters long. Try | remembering what "ny" was when you're knee deep into a posting program. By | the way, all files have field numbers instead of names. I should have metioned | that to start with, so I'm a little slow :-). +--------------- There's worse. Since fields are identified by numbers, ALL literals must be quoted, including numbers. This leads to some coding errors that are VERY common and made me glad we couldn't run FilePro on the computer that replaced our Tandy 6000. Specifically: . If: . Then: VJ = VJ + 1 . This kind of bug blew up a price sheet generator I had written: intuitively it seems that you are incrementing VJ, but really you're adding to VJ the value of the first field in the table. Ecch! ++Brando -- Copyright (C) 1987 Brandon S. Allbery -- you can redistribute only if your recipients can. Brandon S. Allbery {decvax,cbatt,cbosgd}!cwruecmp!ncoast!allbery Tridelta Industries {ames,mit-eddie,talcott}!necntc!ncoast!allbery 7350 Corporate Blvd. necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.HARVARD.EDU Mentor, OH 44060 +01 216 255 1080