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Visual FoxPro
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Miscellaneous
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>>>I have been looking at a code print out for part of the company i work for's original program. It is done in Foxpro for UNIX and has a command I haven't ever seen before. It uses a table and then issues the command
>>>'SET FORMAT TO ordnum'. My question is, is it formating the field in the table or just the 'textbox' on the screen?
>>
>>The screen. It's the Format property in VFP.
>
>Wasn't this ancient "SET FORMAT TO" command a refernce to a text file ('format file') with a .FMT extention that contained a bunch of @...SAYs to position the fields? i.e. Might not Winn find a ORDNUM.FMT file around somewhere?

Yep, that's exactly right. Instead of simply one field, as with the Format property. It controls a number of fields. In general, however, it doesn't really affect the data in the table.
George

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