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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: dBASE II-III+ loss of functionality
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Date: 30 Jan 89 17:18:08 GMT
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Since we have an Ashton-Tate programmer with us,
can you tell us why the ability to redirect @,say
output to a file, which was present in dBASE II,
was not preserved in dBASE III+?

I wrote many programs in II which I had to tediously rewrite
when I moved them to III+ for this reason. (Of course, I had
to tediously rewrite many other parts of my code, too. I'm
still programming in both II and III+ on different
machines--believe it or not, many CP/M machines are
still in productive use.) This loss of functionality, however,
is the most annoying of the changes I've come across.

Steve Goldfield