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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 Joop Buker about "When - validation in get'".

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assistant: JB ->I want to use the WHEN prevalidation.
I didn't try your code to see if it works, but WHENs and VALIDs must
always return a .T. to be satisfied or an .F. to be denied.
Raymond Pesek
 * 1st 2.00 #2448 * Moderator - Clipper Echo
system: You are Veronica Bendersky, 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 "October rules post and  1".

They wrote:
-=> Yours sincerely, Veronica Bendersky <=-

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assistant: Hi Raymond Pesek, hope you are having a nice day
01-Oct-97 18:08:01, Raymond Pesek wrote to All
          Subject: October rules post and  1
I am really interested in XBase++, so I also support the change in policy.
Yesterday I read some messages in the newsgroup comp.lang.clipper relating
XBase++ and another product, FiveWin. From what I read, I learned that
FiveWin is an Omicron product and its purpose is to make Windows programs
from Clipper code, with not many changes. I would be interested in learning
anything about both.
system: You are Hendrik Stevens, 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 "Bedroefd.".

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assistant: Hallo,
Het is mijn droeve plicht U allen te melden dat onze vriend en
ondervoorzitter, Louis Schrijvers na een lange en ongelijke strijd in zijn 41
levensjaar, overleden is op woensdag 1 oktober.
Alle familie leden en vrienden van Louis danken U voor de toegestuurde
kaarten die hij in deze zware periode mocht ontvangen.
Diep bedroefd als wij zijn bieden we iedereen van de familie en naaste
kennissen onze oprechte deelneming aan bij het heen gaan van hun geliefde
zoon, of een vriend.
Met droevige groetjes uit Lanaken,
        Hendrik.
    Sysop INTRO BBS
system: You are Andre Khury, 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 Fwienk@Dds.Nl (Frank Wien about "internal error 5333".

They wrote:
FW>>	DBSETINDEX(0) internal error 5333
FW>>Does anybody know what it means?
FW>>Thank you.
FW>>Dario.
FW>Hi there,
FW>Some time ago, I had the same problem. It finally turned out to be a
FW>bug in the RDD-driver I used. After a re-index the problem was gone,
FW>but the next day (or a few day's later) it came back. Over and over
FW>again! This went on for weeks, with a total index-rebuild almost every
FW>day. I thought I was going crazy. I was using the NSX52 driver (yes,
FW>the freeware version 1.1: BIG mistake, VERY VERY BIG mistake). One
FW>day, I changed everything back in NTX indexfiles. The problem was gone
FW>forever, NEVER to be seen again...

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assistant: To: fwienk@dds.nl (Frank Wienk)
Subject: internal error 5333
Hi boys,
I've killed this problem forever using all areas indexed in "DBFCDX"
( .OR. FoxPro format index). Faster, MUCH smaller and better. You
create only one index file with many orders inside, creating one
symbol in the table.
Try to use VIA "DBFCDX" and I'm sure you'll have this trouble
finished. Don't forget to link the dbfcdx.lib and put REQUEST DBFCDX
on top of prgs.
Let me know if you succeed.
[]s
Andre Khury
akhury@painet.com.br
system: You are Duco Lebens, 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 "CLipper & Unix".

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assistant: Hi there,
A client of us has a Unix server with Win95 clients. Our Clipper apps won't
perform at the speed of dos anymore. Even not at the speed of Win95/Novell...
Any clues? (drivers/rdd-s)
The Clipper app was compiled with version 5.3a and linked with exospace.
BIS\Business Infra Structure b.v.
Duco Lebens
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 Raymond Pesek about "October rules post and  1".

They wrote:
RP> Also, with Clipper dying out in the US and Visual Objects not
RP> having a huge following, I was wondering if folks think we
RP> should change the rules to put Alaska Software's new product
RP> Xbase++ on topic.

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assistant: Hi Ray!
       In a message about echo rules, you proposed:
      I think It's a good idea. Where could we know more about XBase++?
Regards,
                        Andr�s Cianciaruso
                        ace@biosys.net
system: You are Veronica Bendersky, 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 Igor Morozov about "Runtime error R6003".

They wrote:
-=> Yours sincerely, Veronica Bendersky <=-

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assistant: Hi Igor Morozov, hope you are having a nice day
30-Sep-97 06:23:00, Igor Morozov wrote to All
          Subject: CT -�ࠡ��
I can't read your message correctly, but I see you are getting an error
R6003 -integer divide by 0. If you are using a machine with a Cyrix or
AMD-K5 processor, there's a file you have to compile with your program so
that it can run.
You will find the file in  http://www.iag.net/~philb
The file's name is R6003FIX.ZIP, it's in the patches section of The Oasis
Collection.
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 Manfred Schwab about "Alaska xbase".

They wrote:
->has to change to a windows system anyway. I am still using clipper in a
->professional way but I bought my copy of xbase last week and must say
->every begin is hard.

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assistant: MS ->I think this is a very good idea, since every one of us sooner or later
I'll second that! I'm still playing with the demo myself. Thanks for
the comment.
Raymond Pesek
 * 1st 2.00 #2448 * Moderator - Clipper Echo
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 Veronica Bendersky about "October rules post and  1".

They wrote:
->programs from Clipper code, with not many changes.

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assistant: VB ->I am really interested in XBase++, so I also support the change in
policy.
Thanks for the comment.
VB ->FiveWin is an Omicron product and its purpose is to make Windows
FiveWin and it's competitor Clip-4-Win both allow you to keep the
"business logic" of your Clipper code to produce 16 bit Windows 3.1
type executables. Both require you to redo all of the interface code.
i.e. menus, data screens, browses, anything the user can see. That's
the only way to get the GUI Windows look. You'll have to do that for
anything, so it's not a real restriction. Xbase++ claims you don't have
to do that, but if you don't, you simply end up with a DOS looking
program that runs perfectly under Windows 95.
http://www.fivewin.com  and   http://www.clip-4-win.com  for more info
on either.
Thanks for stopping in!
Raymond Pesek
 * 1st 2.00 #2448 * Moderator - Clipper Echo
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 Raymond Pesek about "Determining a user's mail".

They wrote:
RP> Don't have any idea, but there's a free patch to NetLib 6.0g available.
RP> http://www.netlib.com  and Netlib 6.5c will handle NDS as well.

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assistant: Reply-To: erik.wachtmeester@bighole.iaf.nl
Raymond Pesek wrote in a message to Erik Wachtmeester:
EW ->CT III or n_dirlist() from Netlib 6.0e), and scan for an entry
Thanks, I'll have a look.
Regards,
Erik
system: You are Denis Braussen, 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 "October rules post and qu".

They wrote:
RP> Also, with Clipper dying out in the US and Visual Objects not having a
RP> huge following, I was wondering if folks think we should change the
RP> rules to put Alaska Software's new product  Xbase++  on topic.

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assistant: @SUBJECT:October rules post and questions                            N
  Raymond Pesek,
  In a message on 1 October, wrote :
i totally agree.
Best regards,
Denis.
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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 All about "Subject:internet access availability".

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assistant: I've been posting Internet URLs for various products, and am curious to know
how many people here do NOT have Internet access. And is FIDO your only
online messaging service?
I know Internet access is almost as common as a telephone in the USA anymore,
but was curious about the rest of the world.
Thanks,
Ray Pesek
Moderator - Clipper Echo
system: You are Daniel Bielewicz, 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 Frank Paulsen about "October rules post and  1".

They wrote:
fp> os/2-version ist 99% clipper-compatible, minor changes for
fp> dbase-compatibility-functions und database-operation-scope are
fp> i ported 500k pure clipper 5.01-sources to os/2-textmode in one evening.
fp> the executable is little slower than the dos-executable in a VDM, but
fp> don't have any more memory-problems. the gui-classes seem to be well
fp> structured and compatible between os/2 and win32.
>>-<<

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assistant: Hey, frank!
ecessary.
ou
Sounds fine.. and, how about PM applications developement?
Bye!
Bones
system: You are Vladimir Tsetsura, 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 Alexander Dimchenko about "CLIPPER 5.3".

They wrote:
AD> �⧮�����! �� ���� �� ᠡ��!!!!!????

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assistant: �ਢ������ ⥡�, Alexander!
Wed, 24-Sep-97 11:43, Alexander Dimchenko wrote to All:
H� ��� ���� �����-�����, ... � �� �� ���.
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=== E-mail: vc@sesd.voron.elektra.ru
system: You are Isidro Mu�Oz, 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: internal error 5333".

They wrote:
> Dario Marini <marini@cilea.it> wrote:
>
> >Hi to all,
> >I got a "little" problem with a Clipper 5.01 - DOS 6.22 application:
>
> >	DBSETINDEX(0) internal error 5333
>
> >Does anybody know what it means?
> >Thank you.
> >Dario.
>
> Hi there,
>
> Some time ago, I had the same problem. It finally turned out to be a
> bug in the RDD-driver I used. After a re-index the problem was gone,
> but the next day (or a few day's later) it came back. Over and over
> again! This went on for weeks, with a total index-rebuild almost every
> day. I thought I was going crazy. I was using the NSX52 driver (yes,
> the freeware version 1.1: BIG mistake, VERY VERY BIG mistake). One
> day, I changed everything back in NTX indexfiles. The problem was gone
> forever, NEVER to be seen again...
>
> Hope this may help you.
>
> Frank Wienk
> Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
> fwienk@dds.nl
>
> Frank Wienk
> Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
> fwienk@dds.nl
>
>

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From: "Isidro Mu�oz" <isidro@alcavia.net>
You are very grijander,more,
If you want to know the meaning of this you must search in Altavista
"chiquito de la calzada".
Frank Wienk <fwienk@dds.nl> escribi� en art�culo
<60eset$g0j$6@news.worldonline.nl>...
system: You are Stiv Anisin, 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 "October rules post and  1".

They wrote:
VB> I am really interested in XBase++, so I also support the change in
VB> policy. Yesterday I read some messages in the newsgroup
VB> comp.lang.clipper relating XBase++ and another product, FiveWin. From
VB> what I read, I learned that FiveWin is an Omicron product and its
VB> purpose is to make Windows programs from Clipper code, with not many
VB> changes. I would be interested in learning anything about both.

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assistant: Hello Raymond & Others!
05 Oct 97 19:15, Veronica Bendersky wrote to Raymond Pesek:
    Yes ...
Be.
Stiv
system: You are Rene Pilon, 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: internal error 5333".

They wrote:
>You are very grijander,more,
>If you want to know the meaning of this you must search in Altavista
>"chiquito de la calzada".
>
>Frank Wienk <fwienk@dds.nl> escribi� en art�culo
><60eset$g0j$6@news.worldonline.nl>...
>> Dario Marini <marini@cilea.it> wrote:
>>
>> >Hi to all,
>> >I got a "little" problem with a Clipper 5.01 - DOS 6.22 application:
>>
>> > DBSETINDEX(0) internal error 5333
>>
>> >Does anybody know what it means?
>> >Thank you.
>> >Dario.
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Some time ago, I had the same problem. It finally turned out to be a
>> bug in the RDD-driver I used. After a re-index the problem was gone,
>> but the next day (or a few day's later) it came back. Over and over
>> again! This went on for weeks, with a total index-rebuild almost every
>> day. I thought I was going crazy. I was using the NSX52 driver (yes,
>> the freeware version 1.1: BIG mistake, VERY VERY BIG mistake). One
>> day, I changed everything back in NTX indexfiles. The problem was gone
>> forever, NEVER to be seen again...
>>
>> Hope this may help you.
>>
>> Frank Wienk
>> Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
>> fwienk@dds.nl
>>
>> Frank Wienk
>> Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
>> fwienk@dds.nl
>>
>>

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<01bcd2b4$a4641560$521239c3@ordenataarrakis>
From: "Rene Pilon" <rpilon@netdirect.ca>
 Updrade to Clipper 5.2e!  That problem seems to have disappeared.
Isidro Mu�oz wrote in article
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system: You are Calixto Ong Ii, 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 "Sending Message".

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assistant: Greetings Clipper Pro!!!
        How can I send a windowed Message on all workstations?
        Can it be done without 3rd Party Libraries??
        Thanks in advance..
 CO2
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 Raymond Pesek about "Subject:internet access availability".

They wrote:
RP> I know Internet access is almost as common as a telephone in the USA
RP> anymore, but was curious about the rest of the world.

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assistant: in germany internet is not as cheap as in the USA. we have to pay for local
telephone-calls and we have to pay our provider. the transfer-rates are often
bd, so downloading large files via internet sometimes is more expensive than
a long distance file-request via isdn (at night)
but we are waiting for 1998, when our telecom will no longer be the only
phone-provider. hoping for flat rates :-)
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 Daniel Bielewicz about "xbase++ (was October rules post and  1)".

They wrote:
DB> Sounds fine.. and, how about PM applications developement?

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assistant: seems to be quite hard stuff. there are gui-classes, and there is a (not very
comfortable) dialog-painter, which generate sourcefiles with the gui-classes
in it. you click in buttons, fields etc and then it is your business to
handle "events" etc. in the generated code.
a simple dialog is quite easy, but my attempts to build a dialog with a
notebook were not succesfull. i think i should have to learn much about
object-oriented programming.
that's not primary a problem of xbase++, gui-programming is much harder than
text-mode...
system: You are Francisco Tufro, 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 "Hola!!".

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assistant: �Hola All!
Buen Dia a todo el Mundo me llamo francisco y recien comienzo con clipper me
gustaria que alguien me mande un listado para que pueda ir aprendiendo (mejor
si es un file).
Bye!!
Saludos A todo el mundo mi direccion es 4:900/462.12
Francisco
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 Manfred Schwab about "Alaska XBase".

They wrote:
MS> I think this is a very good idea, since every one of us
MS> sooner or later
MS> has to change to a windows system anyway.
MS> MS> t I bought my copy of xbase last week
MS> Who in this area has any experience with xBase so far ?????

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assistant: Hallo Manfred,
What did you pay for it ?
Is there much difference with the pure clipper code ?
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 Veronica Bendersky about "October rules post and  1".

They wrote:
VB> I am really interested in XBase++, so I also support the
VB> change in policy. Yesterday I read some messages in the
VB> newsgroup comp.lang.clipper relating XBase++ and another
VB> product, FiveWin. From what I read, I learned that FiveWin is
VB> an Omicron product and its purpose is to make Windows
VB> programs from Clipper code, with not many changes. I would be
VB> interested in learning anything about both.

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assistant: Hallo Veronica,
What about clip4win ?
Is there anybody with some experience in clip4win ? A couple of months ago I
posted some questyions relating to Clip4win. Until yet, no-one gave me an
answer.
Will this mean that Clipper and windows is an unused combination, and
so.....a dead product ?
Groetjes,
Jean Menten
2:292/120.136
system: You are Jean-Lievin Poelman, 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 Joop Buker about "WHEN - validation in GET'S".

They wrote:
JB> To All,
JB> Here I am again with a beginners problem with Clipper 5.2.
JB> I want to use the WHEN prevalidation. I want that a get is only entered
JB> when the the previous get was left with the key <ctrl-enter>. I tried
JB> in the following way, but that does not work. What is the solution?
//->           in lieu of K_CTRL_ENTER
->   @ 12, 10 say 'B' get cB when editb
//-> keyboard chr(K_CTRL_ENTER) deleted line
-> previous line added

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assistant: Hello Joop!
Thursday October 02 1997 22:28, Joop Buker wrote to All:
this
Well, I tried it too and it does function.
I suggest you this (I work with 5.01 so I made a little modification)
#include "inkey.ch"
setkey( K_CTRL_RET, { || CtrlEnter() } )
cA := space( 10 )
cB := space( 10 )
cC := space( 10 )
while lastkey() != K_ESC
   EDITB:=.f.
   @ 10, 10 say 'A' get cA
   @ 14, 10 say 'C' get cC
   read
enddo
return
procedure CtrlEnter()
   keyboard chr( K_ENTER )
   editb:=.t.
   return
I tested it and it work very well. Don't forget that when you do a setkey(),
when you enter in the function, you must disabled it in order to avoid
automatically calls of the procedure from the procedure. I think your prg was
confused because when you issued the chr(K_CTRL_ENTER) the procedure
CtrlEnter() was in a infinite loop calling itself until you press Alt-C
Hoping being of help,
Jean-Lievin
system: You are Jean-Lievin Poelman, 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 Joop Buker about "WHEN - validation in GET'S".

They wrote:
->
->
->
->
->
->
->

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assistant: Hello Joop!
Answering a msg of <Thursday October 02 1997>, from Joop Buker to All:
Well I had a little time now and I rewrote your function so it functions with
your original code slightly modified :
// remember I had to modify K_CTRL_ENTER in K_CTRL_RET
#include "inkey.ch"
setkey( K_CTRL_RET, { || CtrlEnter() } )
cA := space( 10 )
cB := space( 10 )
cC := space( 10 )
while lastkey() != K_ESC
   @ 10, 10 say 'A' get cA
   @ 12, 10 say 'B' get cB when nextkey() ==  K_CTRL_RET
/* use nextkey in lieu of lastkey(), lastkey doesn't function in this case
because lastkey sees only the K_ENTER and *** NOT *** K_CTRL_RET that is
till
in the keyboard buffer */
   setkey( K_CTRL_RET, { || CtrlEnter() } )
/* this line above is added in order to reassign K_CTRL_RET that's disabled
in the  procedure CtrlEnter() */
   @ 14, 10 say 'C' get cC
   read
enddo
return
func CtrlEnter()
   setkey( K_CTRL_RET, { || NIL } )
/* line added because if you doesn't deactivate the key, the procedure will
e
in a infinite loop because you place the key that calls it in the buffer of
the
keyboard */
keyboard chr( K_ENTER )+chr( K_CTRL_RET )
return
Hoping being of help,
Jean-Lievin
P.S. I suggest you when you have so 'strange' problems to compile you prg
with the /b option and to use the debugger to 'see' your application living.
system: You are Martin Pustilnik, 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 Joop Buker about "WHEN - validation in GET'S".

They wrote:
JB> I want to use the WHEN prevalidation. I want that a get is only
JB> entered when the the previous get was left with the key <ctrl-enter>.
JB> I tried this in the following way, but that does not work. What is the
JB> solution?

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assistant: �Hola Joop!
Get any_var valid (any_var=my_condition)
There is as say: Do "Get" While any_var<>my_condition
Martin