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- From: field@.cs.pitt.edu.cs.pitt.edu (Brian Field)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Paradox questions
- Message-ID: <2280@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:24:09 GMT
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- Two questions regarding Paradox 4.0.
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- 1) I'm writing a script that changes the field types of several fields in a
- table. Since I couldn't figure out how to do this directly from the
- manual, I recorded a script where I manually changed the file types,
- and checked out the script. The script looks something like this:
-
- {Modify} {Restructure} {table_name} Down Down Down .....
- Right Right Backspace Backspace "A8"
-
- Now, this works ok, but doesn't allow me to change this field's
- relative position in the table, without going back and changing the
- script.
-
- Is there a way to do something instead, like:
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- {Modify} {Restructure} {table_name} {field_name} {student name}
- {field_type} "A40"
-
- ??
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- 2) How does one access the contents of a field name that have been passed
- as an arguement to a procedure? Do I need to use EXECUTE to do this,
- or is there an alternative?
-
- Thanks
-
- Brian
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- field@cs.pitt.ed
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