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- From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
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- Subject: Re: Yet Another Simple (?) Question on Paradox
- Message-ID: <p9tn-ta.aahz@netcom.com>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 01:38:19 GMT
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- In article <01GOMEBB5K9400066K@NAUVAX.UCC.NAU.EDU> DEVRIES@NAUVAX.UCC.NAU.EDU (Ernie DeVries) writes:
- >Using CoEdit instead of Edit will allow you to open a blank record, but will not
- >let you leave the record blank by moving off of it to another record. This
- >makes sense if you think of what Paradox does with blank records in Edit, it
- >simply discards them when you Do_It! I suppose CoEdit could have done the same
- >thing, but since it writes each record to disk when you leave the record,
- >Borland apparently decided not to let you post the record at all.
-
- First, do be careful about historical referents to Paradox: the design
- to which you refer has existed since version 2.0, when Ansa still owned
- Paradox.
-
- Second, as long as you're not talking about a keyed table, Paradox
- allows you to have as many blank, *modified* records as you wish.
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