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Is dBase dead? If not Version 7.xx should be.  Yes version 7 is very complicated
to learn,  confusing, full of bugs  and the written information is almost non
existent. The  TeamB people like to give very short non informative answers to
questions that are ask
This does not further the learning process of the general dBase population.
Thanks Marlow

Orlando W wrote:

> Is Visual dBase dead?
> Version 7.01 - disappointing, faulty, sluggish, complicated.
> Scorn of Inprise (and now, Interbase, and tomorrow, the trash).
> In this version, a simple task of to do with VDB 5.5, becomes tedious and
> very dificult.   Why to use an 'one-legged SQL'?  The lackof date's
> function is an delay of life, since the most of commercial applications
> needs it.   For example, the QBE file bellow, fast and simple, is the base
> for a report what presents all liabilities for to pay up to the present,
> inclusively conquereds.
>
> INCLUIR .QBE
> * dBASE Windows arquivo .QBE 9
> CLOSE DATABASES
> SET EXACT ON
> SET DELETED ON
> SELECT 1
> USE C:\VISUALDB\CAIXA\CONTAPAG.DBF ORDER TAG NOME
> SET FILTER TO VENC<=DATE() .AND. EMPTY(PGTO)  // (this line, the Vdb7 dmd
> fails, sql fails, it's the bad complication of Vdb7. Filters and params,
> many complications, insufficient performance)
> SET FIELDS TO COD,NF, DV, NN, VALOR, VENC, VERIF, NOME, REL, PGTO, BANCO
> GO TOP
>
> Well, in Vdb7 the complication is great.  For to do the same task, we need
> not a qbe and rpt files, but many other files (dmd, sql, wfm, rep), what
> don't work. The manual is very bad. And the worst is the desinterestedness
> of Borland/Inprise/Interbase.  This company needs only an autopsy.  Inprise,
> to change the name for to hide your execrable reputation don't resolve!  Or,
> change the name to Delphi, your unique interest, but this, with four
> versions and many, many patches in only three years... it's very unstable,
> too.  In our applications, we shall continue to use Visual dBase 5.5 / 5.6,
> during some time, because the 'RAD' (???!!!) VDB7 don't exists, or is dead.
> Any help is welcome.  Jarbas