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- MODIFY/CREATE DATABASES
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- Create:
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- A database is made up of field names, field types, field lengths, and
- field decimal places. By pressing enter when the cursor is located
- over the desired position, the user takes control of input. Database
- Boss automatically allocates field lengths for logical, date, and memo
- field types. The user must assign field lengths to numeric and character
- field types. Also, a user must assign decimal lengths to a numeric field
- if desired.
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- Database Boss attempts to make the task of building databases error free.
- Invalid characters are automatically replaced with an underscore. Users
- are prompted with valid entries when invalid entries are encountered.
- Positioning is not allowed where defaulted. Database structures may
- not be saved where incomplete databases have been built.
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- Modify:
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- Database Boss allows modification of a database via either adding a new
- record to the bottom of the database or inserting a record anywhere one
- chooses in the database by pressing F5.
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- All data that was previously stored in the prior fields of the database
- will be restored to the same field names in the modified database.
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- Save Structure:
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- By pressing F2 the database's contents are either created or modified
- accordingly. If a new database is being created, the user will be
- prompted for a name prior to the creation. If a database is being
- modified, the same name will be assumed and all of the file's contents
- will be placed in the exact same named fields that existed in the file
- prior to modification.
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- ** If a field is renamed in a modified database, all data that existed
- for the renamed field will be lost.
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- Quit:
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- If a user does not want the changes saved to a database, selecting quit
- will abort the operation and will not save any of the changes that have
- been made.
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