litvin@uiucuxc.UUCP (11/28/84)
<...............---------------.................> Two dBASE III problems that I need help with: 1 - Using an IBM AT (with DOS 3.0), the dBASE III function 'file(filename)' doesn't work. It always returns file_doesn't_exist regardless of whether the file exists or not. Apparently, this problem only exists for DOS 3.0, since I tried 2.0 (or 2.1) and the function worked fine (at the expense of using the hard disk (which requires 3.0)). Anyway, aside from horrible kludges, is there a way to simulate the function? Of course, I could always wait for the AT supported version of dBASE... 2 - Is there some way to program the function keys to do something useful like ALWAYS abort/return from a screen? Programming them for Ctrl-Q almost works, but it doesn't work for the case of GETting several variables and the user wishes to abort the READ after entering some data. What I need (I think) is a Ctrl-Q ; RETURN, but this doesn't work. Apparently, you can't have a literal <return> literal for the keys. I could always set the keys through DOS, but dBASE would be nicer... John Litvin ihnp4!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!litvin