Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!warwick!syrbz
From: syrbz@warwick.ac.uk (J D Mulberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How to set default function key in DBASEIII+?
Summary: Edit config.db
Message-ID: <392@daisy.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 6 Sep 88 17:00:28 GMT
References: <455@yale-bulldog.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: syrbz@warwick.ac.uk (J D Mulberg)
Organization: Sociology Dept., Warwick University, UK
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  In article <455@yale-bulldog.yale.UUCP> sun@venus.ycc.yale.edu writes:
  >... I'd like to re-set the default function key
  >assignment in DBASE but cannot figure out how...

The idea is that you have to edit the config.db file. Use an editor to add

COMMAND = SET FUNCTION n TO "command;"

where n is the number of the function key and command is the instruction
you want dBase to do. For example:

COMMAND = SET FUNCTION 2 TO "use myfile;"

will obtain a database called myfile whenever the f2 key is pressed. Note the
quotes and the semicolon- the quotes are (in this example) mandatory, and the
semi-colon is the same as a <return>.
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