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- MY SURPRISE EXPERIENCE WITH FORMGEN AND DATASTAR
- by Edward R. Elliott, Arizona KUG, May 1987
-
- (A tip)
-
- It all began when I had been using a form I called "log". It was
- a daily log I used each work day to track my time sheet the
- company has us make out for our own time worked that day. I felt
- I could make a better "log", so I took an old log form and put it
- in formgen and made it much better as far as information it would
- handle by itself. It still had the same four number key field
- that tracked the month and day I worked. Then, I started using
- it at work instead of the old "log". Well, as usual I hadn't
- done all my homework and it refused to take in information,
- claiming it had already data in on that date. Here is what I had
- forgotten to do to make this new log run smoothly. I had the
- previous year and it had data still listed for the dates I was
- calling up. Soooo! make sure you clear the "log.dta" file and
- the "log.ndx" file or you will have a balk that is legitimate but
- a puzzler till you look it over very carefully and discover your
- dumb mistake.
-
- Formgen and Datastar are copyright names of MicroPro
- International Corp.