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VFPCOM - is it braindead, or am I?
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19/10/2000 16:22:43
 
 
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19/10/2000 14:38:09
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00431402
Message ID:
00431792
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>>>>Is it just me, or is the RSToCursor method of VFPCOM unable to deal with field names longer than 10 characters?
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>>>If I remember correctly, RSToCursor() truncates field names longer than 10 characters.
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>>Why? Why, why, why? That hasn't been a limitation of foxpro files since the Reagan years! It certainly isn't a limitation of SQL!
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>It's still a limitation of tables that don't belong to a dbc. I have a feeling the RSToCursor function creates free tables- hence the limitation.

Yeah, but the name of the function is RSToCursor, and cursors don't have that limitation... or so one might think :-)
Regards. Al

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