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From: alvidrez@heathcliff (Jeff Alvidrez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How to set default function key in DBASEIII+?
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Date: 8 Sep 88 02:20:23 GMT
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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...

I have seen a few responses go by, but none have suggested the best
way.  Perhaps this is not documented (don't have the docs on hand):

	F10="MODIFY COMMAND;src\"

This line in my config.db sets F10 to be the keystroke sequence in quotes.
The semicolon denotes a carriage return.

To set an environment option, you must similarly invert the syntax of
the usual SET commands:

	HELP=OFF

I wish I knew why Ashton-Tate decided not to make config.db a regular
dBase command file.

Another useful option is the TEDIT variable, which sets the editor called
up by MODIFY COMMAND.  So

	TEDIT=BRIEF

will set brief to be the default editor.

Setting up the environment in config.db this way has the advantage of
concentrating all the config information in one place, and saves the
COMMAND= option for starting turnkey systems.

Happy dBugging,

/jra

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Jeff Alvidrez                               alvidrez@heathcliff.cs.columbia.edu

The opinions expressed in this article are fictional.  Any resemblence they
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