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system: You are Martin Lapes, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jw Berndt about "Nasty problem".

They wrote:
JB> I've got a nasty problem with one of our Clipper programs. When
JB> starting it up it terminates on certain computers with the following
JB> messages:
JB>       (0) Unrecoverable error 668: Eval stack fault
JB>       run-time error R6001
JB>       - null pointer assignment

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assistant: Velitel X-COM BASE PRAHA agentu Jw ...
Ctvrtek Cervenec 24 1997 agent Berndt contact agent All:
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If you have a CIRIX or AMD K5 procesor ( Intell`s procesor is o.k.) ,you can
receive this error.
Good luck !
X-COM BASE PRAHA COMMANDER E-Mail: Plavcik@Bajt.cz , Plavcik@X-COM.Fido.cz
     CodeName: PLAVCIK     http://X-Com.home.ml.org
system: You are Frank Paulsen, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ron Tuynman about "INDEX OF 2 FIELDS".

They wrote:
BC>> I have to use that in Delphi and Clipper 5.2
RT>  ...Not wise.... Performing actions on a database will cause the
RT> indexes to get corrupted. Delphi (I just stepped over from
RT> Clipper to  Delphi) handles indexes and databases slightley
RT> different than  Clipper. My advise is to stick to one of the two
RT> when creating an  application. Considering Clipper is obsolete
RT> and Windows has the  future, I would advise you to put your money
RT> on Delphi...

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assistant: there is a delphi-driver called "apollo". it has the same index- and
locking-structures as clipper 5.x, so you can use these same databases for
your windows and dos-applikations, even the same time in a lan.
it is available at
========
Copyright �1990-1997 by SuccessWare90, Inc.
27349 Jefferson Ave., Suite 110, Temecula, CA 92590
Voice: 909-699-9657 / Fax: 909-695-5679
http://www.GoSware.com * CIS: 74774,2240
========
system: You are Eric Flament, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ben Cavanagh about "INDEX OF 2 FIELDS".

They wrote:
BC> Hello all,
BC> I have a table who have an index made with 2 fields.
BC> index on DATE+NO_MAG
BC> What I need to know is when I seek for a record how should I do that ?
BC> I have date and magazine number variables but I don't know how to put
BC> that in seek.

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assistant: Dans un message dat� du jeudi 24 juillet 1997, BEN CAVANAGH ecrivait � ALL, �
propos de INDEX OF 2 FIELDS sur LOLO BBS
i suppose magasine number is 6 digits.
first create in index key  is dtos(date)+"1"+strzero(no_mag,6,0)
/*
sample. prg
it should work
*/
local the_day:=date(),mag_number:=0, result:=.f.
@ x,y get the_day
@ x,y get mag_number picture '99999'
read
do case
/*
i have a date and a magazine number
*/
case !empty(the_day).and.mag_number>0
result:=dtos(the_day)+"1"+strzero(mag_number,6,0)
/*
i have no date and a magazine number
*/
case empty(the_day).and.mag_number>0
result:="000000001"+strzero(mag_number,6,0)
/*
i have a date and no magazine number
*/
case !empty(the_day).and.mag_number=0
result:=dtos(the_day)+"1000000"
endcase
/*
    normally here  i have no date  and no magazine number
*/
if valtype(result)="L"
err_mess("I need a date or a magazine number ")
else
/*
i perform a soft seek
*/
dbseek(result,.f.)
    then you can test for eof,date,mag_number, browse etc......
endif
i dont put any clause in @ x,y get, why because you can ask for a date or
a magazine number( or both) , is it? . if you put @ x,y get ... Valid it will
be  heavy to handle date and magazine number
have a look in function valtype if the user ask for an empty date and
a 0 magazine number, then result is false so valtype will return Logical
otherwise valtype will return Character.
cheers from sunny French Riviera
A bientot sur LOLO BBS.
ERIC FLAMENT
system: You are Andr�S Cianciaruso, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "DbRLockList() & CDX".

They wrote:
>:>I'm tired of putting random taglines here. No tagline today.

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assistant: Montevideo, Fri 25 Jul 97 02:56
Hi everybody:
             I'm having a "little" trouble with the function DbRLockList() in
Clipper 5.2e. With NTX it worked perfectly, but with CDX it actually returns
an empty array.
             I remember I've readen something about that bug and a fix for
it, but I can't remember where :(. Does anybody know something about it?
Thank you very much,
Regards:
                                        Andr�s Cianciaruso.
                                        Team OS/2 - [AC007]
                                          ace@biosys.net
system: You are Jean Menten, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Clip4win".

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assistant: Hallo ,
I'm trying to get acquainted with the clipper add-on library CLIP4WIN. I've
got some questions about this library:
1.
The programm-windows never appears at the same place at the screen at
start-up:
Why ?
2.
The programm-windows always has a different size:
Why ?
What do I have to do, to make it a full screen window ?
3.
Is there any body out there who is using CLIP4WIN ?
What are your experiences (as an advanced user) with CLIP4WIN ?
Groetjes,
Jean Menten
2:292/120.136
system: You are Jean Menten, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "clip4win and dbf".

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assistant: Hallo ,
In regular clipper I have no problems with the next item:
put a record on the screen and step through the database using skip plus 1
and/or skip minus 1 (next - previous).
It seems that in clip4win you have to handle these things in a different
way......or did I overlook something basically ?
The first record causes no problems. But from the second one....fun starts:(
The first field is a numerical field indicating the number of a product. When
I go to the next record, the screen gives me a non-existing product-number.
Also I have two date-fields in a record (date in - date out), those dates
never change. Using next and/or previous, I always get date-in and date-out
from the first record.
The other fields change correctly using next/previous.
What did I do wrong ? What did I overlook ?
Or maybe....even....did I make the wrong choice with Clip4win ???
Groetjes,
Jean Menten
2:292/120.136
system: You are Erik Wachtmeester, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Codeblocks and arrays".

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assistant: Reply-To: erik.wachtmeester@bighole.iaf.nl
I'm using codeblocks quite a lot, but now I encountered a problem I don't
know how to solve.
Is it possible to use the asort-way of using a codeblock (something like {
|x,y| x[nOffset] < y[nOffset] } ) in a UDF that manipulates an array about
he
same way asort() does?
The reason why I'm asking: asort() doesn't always do what I want: if 2 or
ore
sorting criteria are the same, the array elements should stay in the original
order in the array. And asort() (using a quicksort or a shellsort, I don't
know)
doesn't do that. A simple bubblesort does, at the cost of being a bit slower,
but that's acceptable if the array isn't that big.
But, how do I write a universal bubblesort routine that accepts an asort-like
codeblock?
It's the |x,y| part that intrigues me. All codeblocks on arrays I use use
ero
or one local, as do all the programming examples I've seen.
So it isn't the sort routine I'm interested in (I know how to write a
quicksort, shellsort, insertion sort, etc.), but the way how asort() parses
it's
codeblocks.
Regards,
Erik
system: You are Ben Cavanagh, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Raymond Pesek about "Index of 2 fields".

They wrote:
RP>>BC ->index on DATE+NO_MAG
RP>>Should be INDEX ON dtos(Date) + No_Mag
RP>>SEEK dtos(dDate)
RP>>or
RP>>SEEK dtos(Date) + "the number"

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assistant: Hello Raymond,
It don't work, because with seek you can only seek on one field.
So I'll use set filter.
Thank you !
Bye !
system: You are Ben Cavanagh, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ron Tuynman about "INDEX OF 2 FIELDS".

They wrote:
RT>>BC> I have a table who have an index made with 2 fields.
RT>>BC> index on DATE+NO_MAG
RT>> ...I think this doesn't exactly what you think it does... :-|
RT>> I think YOU are thinking you are indexing on a date, followed bij a
RT>> number. Instead of this you are JUST indexing on a strange date in
RT>> the future!
RT>> What definitely works (but maybe a little slow) is creating an Index
RT>> on one of the two variables en set a filter based on the other. Then
RT>> perform a seek...
BC> I have to use that in Delphi and Clipper 5.2
RT>> (I just stepped over from Clipper to Delphi) handles indexes
RT>> and databases slightley different than
RT>> Clipper. My advise is to stick to one of the two when creating an
RT>> application. Considering Clipper is obsolete and Windows has the
RT>> future, I would advise you to put your money on Delphi...

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assistant: Hello Ron,
      I think that I understand what you think, but I forgot to say
      that these 2 fields are caracter and it's the reason that you
      think that.
     Not exactly, what I thought is that DbSeek can seek for 2 fields
     condition. Like DbSeek ("JAN 97", "132") --> search for
     date = JAN 97  and  no_mag = 132.
     I tought that, because you can create an index with more than 1
     field but it's just to show the data in order, it's not for seek.
     Yes I found that solution too and I think it's the better one.
     I like Delphi to program in Pascal for Windows, but for the database
     I'll get a used version of Clipper VO or Foxpro.
     Thank you for your help !
     Alp !
system: You are Daniel Roberto Ignazzi, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Consulta".

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assistant: Como andan, todo bien.
Necesito si alguin me podria decir como hago para buscar un campo en una base
de datos sin completar la cadena
Ej:
    Apellido = Lopez
y yo con ingresar "Lo" quiero que me lo encuentre.
Cualquier cosa me sirve , desde ya muchas gracias
system: You are Feike Oldenhuis, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Markus Wiederstein about "Clipper -> Windows ! What Tool is best ?20:14:0008/04/97".

They wrote:
MW> - Clip4Win
MW> - FiveWin
MW> - Alaska X-Base++ (OS/2 and Windows 95/NT)
MW> - CLWINDOW
MW> - VisualObjects (i liked the ASPEN working title)

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assistant: Until tyhis moment I prefer the Xbase++.
The Clip4win is using the normal Clipper, so you stay with 16-bit programs,
but for the rest it works fine.
I've seen a demo of the VisualObjects 2, but it is the same interface,with is
in my opinion not to good (i.e. the reposotory).
I bought the xbase++ for OS/2. It looks very good. It is really compatible
with clipper 5.2. I tested this buy compiling a clipper 5.2 program with
xbase++. This didn't give any problems except for some small programming
mistakes, for example browse:hittop(). This is excepted by clipper, but
xbase++ is more strict in checking the code. But for the rest the program did
work immediatley. (I didn't have to change the interface , because OS/S has a
text-mode window)
The people of xbase told me that try to make the twi version, OS/2 and
Windows, on source level compatible, that means copy the source, compile and
link. If this is the case, it would ba a good thing.
The only problem can be the price of the product DM 800 and for the XbTools
III als DM 800.
Groeten,
Feike Oldenhuis
system: You are Andr�S Cianciaruso, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "DbRLockList() & CDX".

They wrote:
>:>I'm tired of putting random taglines here. No tagline today.

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assistant: * Original a All ()
 * Fecha <Fri 25 Jul 97 02:56> del area CLIPPER'CLIPPER - Clipper database &
programming language echo.'
 * Enviado por Andr�s Cianciaruso (4:850/1.4)
                                        Montevideo, Fri 25 Jul 97 02:56
Hi everybody:
             I'm having a "little" trouble with the function DbRLockList() in
Clipper 5.2e. With NTX it worked perfectly, but with CDX it actually returns
an empty array.
             I remember I've readen something about that bug and a fix for
it, but I can't remember where :(. Does anybody know something about it?
Thank you very much,
Regards:
                                        Andr�s Cianciaruso.
                                        Team OS/2 - [AC007]
                                          ace@biosys.net
system: You are Robert Lamping, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Background Events / Version 5".

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assistant: Dear All,
A new version of Background Events for Clipper (Dos) has been released:
Version 5.0
You can download it from the Internet via:
   http://www.stack.nl/~lamping/bgevents.htm
With over 500 visitors from 52 countries this can be called a succes!
You can now create events and evaluate these in your own function MyInkey().
In that case you don't use the Clipper-event-system. Bgevents simply gives
you the frame.
The changes are mentioned in this message. More text on how to use it and
ore
you will find on the Internetpage. Make sure you save the page as well as the
zipfile.
I hope you like the new version. I hope to hear for what purposes you use it.
Kind regards,
Robert Lamping
Permanent email: Robert@winning.com
system: You are Robert Lamping, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Manfred Schwab about "Timerfunctions".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Erik Wachtmeester to Manfred Schwab <=-
EW> Reply-To: erik.wachtmeester@bighole.iaf.nl
EW> Manfred Schwab wrote in a message to Alle:
MS> Is there an equivalent function in any library available for
MS> Clipper or FCO Compiler as freeware or as an to be bought
MS> additional function library.
EW> Check out BGEvents, a free background events library for Clipper. It
EW> can do all the timer functions you are looking for, and a lot more. I
EW> got it from Oasis as bgev4.zip.

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assistant: The Home of Background Events for Clipper is at the Internet:
 http://www.stack.nl/~lamping/bgevents.htm
 You'll find the most recent version there.
 Robert Lamping
 The author of BGEvents
 The Netherlands
 (Arno Tolmeijer is the co-author)
system: You are Erik Wachtmeester, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ben Cavanagh about "Index of 2 fields".

They wrote:
RP>>SEEK dtos(Date) + "the number"
BC> It don't work, because with seek you can only seek on one field.

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assistant: Reply-To: erik.wachtmeester@bighole.iaf.nl
Ben Cavanagh wrote in a message to Raymond Pesek:
It actually does. You're not seeking on a field, but on an index expression.
And an index can contain as many fields as you want it to.
Regards,
Erik
system: You are Erik Wachtmeester, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ben Cavanagh about "INDEX OF 2 FIELDS".

They wrote:
BC>      Not exactly, what I thought is that DbSeek can seek for 2 fields
BC>      condition. Like DbSeek ("JAN 97", "132") --> search for
BC>      date = JAN 97  and  no_mag = 132.
RT>> application. Considering Clipper is obsolete and Windows has the
RT>> future, I would advise you to put your money on Delphi...
BC> I like Delphi to program in Pascal for Windows, but for the
BC> database I'll get a used version of Clipper VO or Foxpro.

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assistant: Reply-To: erik.wachtmeester@bighole.iaf.nl
Ben Cavanagh wrote in a message to Ron Tuynman:
Make that dbseek( 'JAN 97  132' ) and it will work, assuming that your
'date'-field is exactly 6 chars long and no_mag is 5 chars with the number
adjusted to the right. dbseek() only accepts 1 parameter as a seek argument
(and
a 2nd logical to indicate if it's to be a softseek or not).
But the index you created (date + no_mag) is actually stored and used as 1
concatenated string, so that's no problem at all.
Although I would never index on a textfield containing 'JAN 97', 'APR 98',
etc.
At least I would store these fields as '199701' and '199804' to get the index
in
a proper order. And it's quite easy to write 2 little functions that convert
user input 'JAN 97' to '199701' and screen output '199701' to 'JAN 97'.
But why not just use date fields for these? A little conversion routine is
also
very easy to write, and using a well chosen epoch setting you won't have to
worry about the 2000-problem, even if you're only using 2 digits for the
year...
Check out the Apollo VCL for Delphi from SuccessWare (now Luxent)! A native
database driver for Delphi (it doesn't use ODBC) that's fully compatible with
their great SIx database driver for Clipper. And since it's downward
compatible
with FoxPro and Clipper databases and indexes, you can use it on your
xisting
data.
Regards,
Erik
system: You are Raymond Pesek, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ben Cavanagh about "Index of 2 fields".

They wrote:
RP>>SEEK dtos(Date) + "the number"

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assistant: BC ->It don't work, because with seek you can only seek on one field.
It absolutely does. It's seeking the key expression, which is a
combination of the two fields. You just have to make sure that the
total length of your SEEK expression is exactly the same as that of the
two fields combined. If the field holding the magazine number has a
width of four, for example, it'd be
SEEK dtos(Date) + padl(alltrim(FIELD->Number),4)
Raymond Pesek
 * 1st 2.00 #2448 * Moderator - Clipper Echo
system: You are Vincent Soeurt, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Feike Oldenhuis about "Clipper -> Windows ! What Tool is best ?11:14:0008/07/97".

They wrote:
> Until tyhis moment I prefer the Xbase++.
> I bought the xbase++ for OS/2. It looks very good. It is really
> compatible with clipper 5.2. I tested this buy compiling a clipper 5.2
> program with xbase++.
> The only problem can be the price of the product DM 800 and for the
> XbTools III als DM 800.

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assistant: Hi Feike!
Can you tell me where you got a (evaluation)copy of this product? I'm very
curious about it and would like to see it working myself. But I've trouble
getting a demo. I've been on their site, but even there I cannot find any
relevant information. I would be very pleased if you could!
Best regards,
Vincent.
system: You are Alek & Tomek, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Praca dla programisy".

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assistant: apex!carrier.kiev.ua!demos!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.icm.edu.pl!news.tpnet.pl!
ppp-rap114.wroclaw.tpnet.pl
From: "Alek & Tomek" <allexok@hotmail.com>
Ofert� sta�ej pracy dla zaawansowanego programisty Clipper'a
posiada ALLEX Wroc�aw. Kontakt  tel. 73-49-68 od 8 do 16.
                                                           Tomasz
Czajczy�ski
system: You are Helder M. Vieira, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Re: Praca dla programisy".

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assistant: apex!carrier.kiev.ua!demos!newsfeed.direct.ca!europa.clark.net!144.212.95.13!n
ntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!news-xfer.cybernet.dk!duke.telepac.p
t!news.telepac.pt!usenet
From: "Helder M. Vieira" <hmv@mail.telepac.pt>
Say what ?
system: You are Erik Wachtmeester, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Clipper message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Denis Braussen about "Clip4win".

They wrote:
JM> I'm trying to get acquainted with the clipper add-on library
JM> CLIP4WIN. I'v got some questions about this library:
DB> nice idea, excellent choice. :-))
DB> Clip4win is a (very good) library wich allow you to write REAL
DB> WINDOWS EXE (but only in 16 bits, because Clipper makes 16
DB> bits *.obj) The structure of your PRG is, in such a windows
DB> style programming, very close from C style. (BUT, last Version
DB> of Clip4Win include an OOP engine which allow you to create
DB> your own classes...)

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assistant: Reply-To: erik.wachtmeester@bighole.iaf.nl
Denis Braussen wrote in a message to Jean Menten:
Hmm. I'm quite new to Windows programming, but wouldn't it be easier/better
o
write a user interface in e.g. Delphi, C++ Builder or Visual C++ that
communicates with a Clipper engine on the background through named pipes or
shared memory? I don't know if a Clipper library that supports named pipes or
shared memory exists, but if yes, you've got a much more flexible solution.
The
front end could also been written for OS/2, X11, System7, Java, etc., and the
Clipper engine could be running on another machine (maybe even supporting
different clients). The latter would only work with named pipes of course,
because shared memory over different machines just isn't possible...
Regards,
Erik