>>>>Anybody know the first version of Fox to have the DTOS() function?
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>>>It's been at least since 2.0; I don't have any earlier copies around. I'd be willing to bet that it's actually from back in the FoxBase+ days, but that's a guess.
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>>>You might want to check Communications Horizons, the people who put out Y2KFox; if anyone would have a definitive answer, I'd be inclined to think they'd know, since DTOS() is one of the biugger Y2K issues them. Digital Coyote would be another reliable source of information.
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>>I was jusy sort of curious, because another programmer at one of my clients made an excuse for a really stupid date scheme: "That was before we had DTOS, back in the 3.0 days."
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>Well, I can guarentee that it existed in 2.0, 2.5 and 2.6; I made use of it there. I don't have any surviving fragments of stuff that ran under 1.02, but I am fairly sure that it was there as well, and like I said, maybe even in Foxbase+, because I rememeber having indexes that were based on composite keys built on a date and a transaction number fro some simple electronic ordering stuff i wrote for libraries way back then.
In FoxBase it had a form of dtoc(date, 1), but worked the same. I also think this alias for a well known function came with 2.0.
Erik, you may quote us as witnesses :)