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- From: cjh@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Carol J. Hughes)
- Subject: Clipper printing deleted material from memo field
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.163710.19277@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Originator: cjh@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU
- Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
- Organization: University of Virginia
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:37:10 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- I wrote a Clipper '87 application that has a help.dbf with two fields:
- var C10
- helptext M10
- The database contains help info in the memo field "helptext"
- for various GET fields and menus within the program.
- One of the records is used for logging purposes. The program writes
- various info to the field whenever certain actions are taken by
- the users. The supervisor views this info every week and can delete
- old info. She asked for the option of printing the info, so I added
- an option to do so.
-
- Problem: When I print the info using the function MEMOLINE,
- Clipper includes the text that has been deleted
- but it leaves out the first letter of each line
- that has been deleted. I don't want any of the
- deleted info.
-
- I ran a program in 5.01 that Rick Spence suggests in his
- second book to get rid of unused DBT blocks but that
- didn't help.
-
- If I search help.dbt with NORTON'S, it shows all the deleted
- text, including the first letter of each line. (The report
- does not show the first letter of each line of deleted text.)
-
- There is another database in the same system with a memo field.
- I deleted the first four lines of the memo text from one of the
- records and added new text, then printed a report which shows
- the memo text. The report was fine. The deleted text did not
- show and the new text did.
-
- Does anyone know why the deleted text from the help.dbf is
- showing up on the report and how to get rid of it?
-
- Joan Hughes
- University of Virginia
- cjh@virignia.edu
-