jpp@cs.nott.ac.uk (John P Pantouvakis) (06/14/89)
In article <8906071917.AA23075@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu> Chris writes : >I have a small problem with DBaseIV. In my program, I create a textfile >using the SET ALTERNATE command. If I run the program more than once, I'd >like the new text file to append itself to the end of the old one. Is this >possible? Right now, the program just pops up a window asking me if I want >to overwrite the old file or cancel the operation. Well, I had the same problem with dbase iii +. Here is my solution (there can be better solutions but at least this one works !) Say that you want to create a file called A.TXT Instead of creating A.TXT you create a temporary file, say, B.TXT in which you put whatever you wanted to put in A.TXT. Once B.TXT has been created, you append it to A.TXT (using something like "RUN TYPE B.TXT >> A.TXT") Then you DELETE FILE B.TXT to clean up the system and you end-up with the desired result. Have Fun John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John-Paris Pantouvakis " If you can't convice them Dept. of Computer Science confuse them " University of Nottingham tel : +44-602-484848 ext. 3814 Nottingham, NG7 2RD e-mail : j.pantouvakis@Cs.Nott.AC.UK UK -------------------------------------------------------------------------