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- EDITING WITH DBASE
- by Jim Hicks, SNUG, October 1987
-
- (A tip on one limitation of the dBase II command editor)
-
- I ran into something while writing a program that I hadn't
- encountered before. As usual, I was using Wordstar to write the
- dBase program (using non-document mode, of course). While
- running the program, I needed to make a small change and used the
- dBase editor to make it instead of exiting dBase and returning to
- Wordstar. When I reran the program, it bombed out!
-
- The problem was because the dBase editor only uses an 80
- character wide line. I had written one of the program lines in
- Wordstar that was some 90 characters long. When I used the dBase
- editor, it chopped off the 10 extra characters which caused the
- program to crash.
-
- Lesson learned - either make sure your dBase program lines don't
- exceed 80 characters or else make any changes using the text
- editor you originally used to write the program. Ah, the hazards
- of trying to program these beasts.