>>>>>>I need to be able to display all relevant information about a database container (i.e. tables, fields, size of fields, type of field, comments, captions, etc.) in one printable listing. (Basically, a combination of the results of LIST STRUCTURE and LIST DATABASE commands.)
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>>>>>>Does anyone know how to do this?
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>>>>>What you can do for this is write a little program, a combo of DISP TABLES to a file, then use AFIELDS on each table in the file to print the fields and other info. The LIST STRU doesn't work for long names (I hope that's a fix in a new version), so you have to format the output.
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>>>>>Maybe someone else knows something quicker?
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>>>>the .dbc can be opened as a table -- why not create a report to print the info directly?
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>>>That sounds good but where is the field info for the tables?
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>>objectname holds the name info for fields, indexes, tables, etc. objectid, parentid and objecttype tell what each is and how they're related.
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>Yes, but what we're looking for here is field attributes. Don't you still have to use AFIELDS?

i think so. i guess i should try reading these when i'm awake....