>>>>Rodolfo sounds like you are a good candidate for the elite
>>>>dinosaur clique! based on your message, you have but to ask!
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>I did dbaseII on a dual floppy PC.
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>Remember the modify strucuture command? It blew all the records out of the table.
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>I got what had to be among the first run time disks from ashton-tate
>($500 for a three ring binder with 5 dbrun disks) and compiled my
>senior project in college. Teacher was so shocked he couldn't see
>the source he hired me.
>
>Those were the days..
>
>Chris

When I was in college, I got my first programming job for a department on campus. I had to do a program in dBase II on a dual floppy CP/M machine. One day I ran into a problem that I couldn't figure out, so I called a professor on campus that had written a book on dBase II. He looked at my code and saw a PICTURE clause of "99999" for a character field and immediately told me "You can't do that. The field isn't numeric". I gathered up my stuff and walked out the door. Unfortuately, the next quarter I had to take a class from him...luckily it wasn't dBase.

Craig