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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:37:00 -0700
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- From: Janet Sedgley <sedgley@SELWAY.UMT.EDU>
- Subject: Errors messages and export
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- I have two unrelated questions about dbase IV. First, I'm running a query
- and think I have the logic correct. I feel that it is a relatively
- straight forward query (group by, asc1; group by asc2; =1, cnt) but even
- when I reduce it to just one group by, I get the error message Numeric
- overflow (data was lost). The dbase manuals don't seem to have a list
- of error messages - or hints as to why this is happening. I'm working on
- a 386 with no math coprocessor, DOS 3.3, 544 K RAM and 2656 K of expanded
- memory. Does anyone have any clues? Is this an error that could be
- caused by incorrect logic? insufficient memory?
-
- I am using dBASE over a Pathworks connection, if that affects the answer!
-
- Also, I was trying to export a dbase file for someone, and bring it into
- WordPerfect. The three export options I tried (text fixed-length fields,
- blank delimited and character delimited) seem to interpret every extra
- space in a field as an end field. I was wanting to bring the information
- into WordPerfect and replace the delimiting character with merge codes.
- Because of the way dBASE exports I'm getting a varying number of fields
- for each record. Does anyone know of a good way to export from dBASE
- without this problem?
-
- Thanks for your help,
- Janet Sedgley
- Computing & Information Services
- University of Montana
-