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- From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
- Subject: Re: Paradox questions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.130052.20004@netcom.com>
- Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus
- References: <2280@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:00:52 GMT
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- In article <2280@blue.cis.pitt.edu> field@.cs.pitt.edu.cs.pitt.edu (Brian Field) writes:
- >
- >Two questions regarding Paradox 4.0.
- >
- >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"
-
- To do this generally:
- {Modify}{Restructure} select TabName right
- LOCATE FName right [] = NewType
-
- >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?
-
- MOVETO FIELD FName x=[]
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