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Article #363Basic File handling
From: NG CHIK KANG
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 05:28
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 05:28
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I am interested in find a imple method to handle files under basic. My application requires me to keep tracks of customer's data as well as Invoices. How do I maintain a reasonably large database with Basic? Especially when the data such as address contains "commas -," and chr$(10) and chr$(13). Another problem is that the length of each invoice is not fixed. Some peopl buy for items than others. So obviously I couldnt use records. I figure that binary file access is the only way. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Another consideration is whether it is network compatible. I am wondering if I could write the database into a DBASE compatible file format (.DBF). anyone with any information?
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Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!newsserver.technet.sg!nuscc!nusunix3.nus.sg!sci20194 From: sci20194@nusunix1.nus.sg (NG CHIK KANG) Subject: Basic File handling Message-ID: <1992Dec29.052817.19220@nuscc.nus.sg> Sender: usenet@nuscc.nus.sg Organization: National University of Singapore X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 05:28:17 GMT Lines: 15