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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Writing formatted output to file in dBase III+
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Date: 27 Jan 89 21:25:10 GMT
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In article <626@dsacg1.UUCP> nfs0294@dsacg1.UUCP (Glendell R. Midkiff) writes:
#>From article <403@systime.UUCP>, by staylor@systime.UUCP (Simon Taylor):
#>> Does anyone know how to redirect formatted output generated using @x,y SAY
#>> under dBase III+ rather than to the screen or printer?
#>>
#>I'm not sure if all this is supported by DBASE III+, but in CLIPPER you
#>can use the SET ALTERNATE or SET PRINTER TO <filename> and when done
#>close the file by using SET ALTERNATE TO, SET ALTERNATE OFF.
#>
#>-- 
#> |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
#> |Glen Midkiff   osu-cis!dsacg1!gmidkiff                                 |

In McMax, which is supposed to be the same as dBASE III+, my
manual explicitly states that SET ALTERNATE TO FILE won't
work for @,say statements as it did in dBASE II. Indeed, it
seems a strange retrogression in functionality to have
eliminated that option. In my programs, I've had to convert
@,say statements to ? statements to redirect output to a file.

Steve Goldfield