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- dBASE IV Language Support Disk
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- README file
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- This disk contains language tables that you can install to
- insert different country and language information into your
- existing version of dBASE IV 2.0 or dBASE Compiler 1.0 resource
- files. To install a language table, change your current drive
- to the floppy drive and type INSTALL. For example:
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- C:> A:
- A:> INSTALL
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- You are prompted to choose a product (dBASE IV 2.0 or dBASE
- Compiler 1.0) and a language table, and to type in the
- directory where the dBASE product is installed ("C:\DBASE"
- is supplied as the default for dBASE IV 2.0, "C:\BDCOMP" is
- the default for the dBASE Compiler 1.0). The program creates
- a new DBASE1.RES or DBASE.RES, depending on the product you
- choose, with the chosen country and language defaults inside
- it. The original resource file is copied to a backup file with
- the extension ".BAK".
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- Each language table defines the valid alphabetic
- characters, the case conversion rules and the collating
- (sorting) order used by dBASE.
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- *** WARNING ***
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- Once you install a new language table you MUST REINDEX
- any existing indexes created with a different collation
- order or with older versions of dBASE. Failure to do so
- will result in corrupted index files.
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- *** LANGUAGE DRIVER ID ***
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- Each of the new language tables has an assigned language
- driver ID. This means that dBASE is able to detect when
- incompatible database and index files are being used.
- Please see the "README" file supplied with your version
- of dBASE IV 2.0 for more information on language drivers
- and code pages.
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- Each language table also defines default values for
- country specific information. However, values in
- your CONFIG.DB file will override these defaults.
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- When you install dBASE IV 2.0 or create a new
- CONFIG.DB with DBSETUP, country specific information
- based on your DOS country code is placed in your
- CONFIG.DB file. In some cases, the DOS values differ
- from the values in the language tables. Please check
- the following settings in your CONFIG.DB file to
- ensure they are appropriate:
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- SET CURRENCY TO
- SET CURRENCY right/left
- SET POINT TO
- SET SEPARATOR TO
- SET DATE TO
- SET MARK TO
- SET HOURS TO
- LANGTABLES
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- To use the country defaults in the language tables
- from this disk remove these lines from your CONFIG.DB file
- using a text editor.