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- From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
- Subject: Re: dBase programming question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.081234.18485@pegasus.com>
- Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu
- References: <1993Jan7.185640.9973@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 08:12:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.185640.9973@ac.dal.ca> guruman@ac.dal.ca writes:
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- > I'm looking for some help on a dbase program I'm writing.
- >It's a silly problem, nevertheless, I can't get by it. I need to know how
- >to assign inputted text to a text variable
- >i.e. input "employee name? " to name
- >(oh sorry, this` is for dBase III+)
- >I presume I have to define the variable "name" as a character variable,
- >but my little reference book seems to have overlooked variable definitions.
- >Any suggestions on the proper path to follow?
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- I'm surprised that the manuals wouldn't have an example. Aren't there
- samples that come with the original diskettes ?
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- As I recall there are two huge manuals one for interactive use and one
- for programming which one are you looking at ?
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- tom
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