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MISC Miscellaneous clarification/anomalies.
Clipper Version 1.29 dtd 04/15/91.
1) NDX File Support ( Card contained with Clipper 5.0 )
You must request this feature from Nantucket(r). Not available
as of early June.
2) MEMVARBLOCK() (NG Function Description)
MEMVARBLOCK() cannot be used to create set-get blocks for LOCAL
or STATIC variables.
3) Code block parameter visibility - documentation anomaly.
Page 1-21 of the Clipper 5 Reference, last sentence, 2nd paragraph
reads: "....a declaration that occurs within a code block (a block
parameter), applies to that code block and any code blocks nested
within it.". The block parameter IS NOT visible to nested code blocks,
unless you pass it.
4) Menu.prg example on page 1-2 of the Reference Manual has as its
first line '#include "Database.prg" ...'. This directive should
be placed at the end of the program (it includes generic database
functions).
5) STATIC arrays. Documentation anomaly, pg. 1-57. Contrary to the
documentation, STATIC arrays are also dynamic.
6) The following program results in a run-time error because x was not
initialized; however, the error message, "Error BASE/1087 Argument
error: -- " should reference ++ instead.
function main
local x
x++
return nil
7) The COPY FILE command doesn't throw an error to the error handler if
there is an "out of drive space" error.
8) An corrupted index error may refer to the prior index in a list.
9) There _is_ a, to be defined, limit to what TBrowse can handle in terms
of number of fields versus screen display rows.
10) A memory overbooked error may be caused by too many #define statements.
11) When using @ .. GET aArray[nCtr] VALID SomeFunc(oGet) in a FOR nCtr ..
loop, the nCtr can't be used in SomeFunc(oGet), (it will have a value
of n + 1). Use oGet:getVar() to retrieve the get value for validation.
12) The following variations of InKey() all produce the same effect as
INKEY(0) : Inkey(NIL), Inkey(""), Inkey(cString).
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