paul@csnz.nz (Paul Gillingwater) (05/09/88)
In article <1251@its63b.ed.ac.uk> dougie@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Dougie Nisbet) writes: >There is a command SET DATE BRITISH which allows use to use british >type dates, once we have started dBASE, but it does not seem to be possible >to insert the command DATE = BRITISH into the CONFIG.DB file. Try this in your CONFIG.DB: COMMAND=SET DATE BRITISH I find it better to create an INIT.CMD file with such commands in it, e.g. SET DATE BRITISH. Then put COMMAND=DO INIT into CONFIG.DB. -- Paul Gillingwater, Senior Consultant Call my private BBS - Magic Tower, Computer Sciences of New Zealand Ltd NZ +64 4 753561 V21/V23 8N1 24hrs P.O.Box 929, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND Soon: V22/V22bis/Bell 103/Bell 212A Vox: +64 4 846194, Fax: +64 4 843924 "Scott me up, Beamie!"-Lounge Suit Larry
dougie@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Dougie Nisbet) (05/13/88)
In article <19@csnz.nz> paul@csnz.UUCP (Paul Gillingwater) writes: >In article <1251@its63b.ed.ac.uk> dougie@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Dougie Nisbet) writes: >>There is a command SET DATE BRITISH which allows use to use british >>type dates, once we have started dBASE, but it does not seem to be possible >>to insert the command DATE = BRITISH into the CONFIG.DB file. > >Try this in your CONFIG.DB: >COMMAND=SET DATE BRITISH > No, this doesn't work. (At least, not with my version - 1.1) The number of 'SET' commands which you can put in your CONFIG.DB seems to be a subset of the total number of SET commands, and the 'SET' part is dropped when it is placed in the file. >I find it better to create an INIT.CMD file with such commands in it, >e.g. SET DATE BRITISH. Then put COMMAND=DO INIT into CONFIG.DB Many people suggested this solution to me. I think that the CONFIG.DB file should be able to set up an environment which is *always* required. i.e. I will always want dates in british format, this is not application dependant. When I want to use a slightly different working environment, I can use the command file name as an argument to the dbase command. For me to have to call a secondary startup program to set up a default environment seems unelegant. I could have 5 dbase applications, each called from five different DOS batch files, and each one would need the date set. Yes, it *is* a piddling little detail, so why isn't it possible? >-- >Paul Gillingwater, Senior Consultant Call my private BBS - Magic Tower, >Computer Sciences of New Zealand Ltd NZ +64 4 753561 V21/V23 8N1 24hrs >P.O.Box 929, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND Soon: V22/V22bis/Bell 103/Bell 212A >Vox: +64 4 846194, Fax: +64 4 843924 "Scott me up, Beamie!"-Lounge Suit Larry Dougie Nisbet