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From: marla@upba.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: dBASE III+ problem
Message-ID: <50500001@upba>
Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 15:06:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  6 15:06:00 1987
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Nf-From: upba.UUCP!marla    Nov  6 14:06:00 1987



	I tried to mail directly, but you weren't in our path alias file.

> I would like to prompt a user in a .prg file with a sequence similar to
> this:

> datab='test.dbf'
> @ 2,2 say 'What database do you wish to access' get datab
> read
> use 'datab'

> The sequence above does not work. The file test.dbf is assumed to exist.

> Clifton B. Sothoron Jr.

	I've used this solution:

MNAME='test'
USE &MNAME

	I haven't ever tried the prompt, but I assume this would work:

datab='test'
@ 2,2 say 'What database do you wish to access' get datab
read
use &datab

	


UUCP:   ...!ihnp4!upba!marla                            Marla Conway