General information
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
>>>>I worked with dBaseII since version 1.0 (?) for CPM, when you only could use two tables at once. I was able to build surprisingly advanced applications still. However I must confess that I don't remember when memo fields were added. Anyway, I am 99.99% sure that you should be able to read the old table directly from VFP. I hope you are able to fix the headers.
>>>
>>>Back then, the common cause of table (aka database) corruption was "edited with WordStar and saved".
>>
>>The nice thing about dBase II was in was “a relational database”. Yes sir, that is what it was advertised as. Why you could actually open two tables at a time! Imagine that? Table A, and table B. You could never have more than two tables open at a time though. I got my copy in December 1981.
>>
>>My copy of Wordstar was version 0.92. I remember all the combinations of control keys to do anything. ^KS
>
>I was editing cobol files in it, on CP/M, and had trouble explaining to few others that they should open and save them files in non-document mode (funny name for plain text, eh?), because all those formatting marks won't compile... Not that I understood that myself right on, took me a week to understand what was it that I keep forgetting sometimes. Ah, damn non-document! Why is it not the default? Grrrr.
My favorite development editor was MS (Microstar). It was easy to copy-paste with MS.
Previous
Reply
View the map of this thread
View the map of this thread starting from this message only
View all messages of this thread
View all messages of this thread starting from this message only