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From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Writing formatted output to file in dBase III+
Message-ID: <702@stech.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 89 12:25:11 GMT
References: <19591@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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in article <19591@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) says:
> 
> 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.

I just checked a dBase III+ manual. It says:

"SET ALTERNATE records all output OTHER THAN THAT OF FULL-SCREEN COMMANDS
to a text file" (upper case mine)

Not only are @ commands not recorded, but EDIT and APPEND also are
excluded. Bummer...

Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
UUCP: husc6!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop

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