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Article #3080Re: Clipper
From: Paul Tomblin
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 1990 14:01
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 1990 14:01
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marwk@levels.sait.edu.au writes:
|>>Does anybody know the clipper command to flush all buffers to disk?
|>>In Foxbase/Foxpro, the command is "FLUSH"
|>
|> And in Clipper it's "commit"
|> Don't you have a manual to look such things up in?
|>
|As with all manuals, if you do not know what the word is which is used
|for the operation you wish to use, you cannot look it up in the manual!!
Maybe I'm just weird, but when I get a new package, or an upgrade for an old
package, I READ the manual cover to cover to discover their terminology.
While I may not remember everything, it does give me a "leg up" when I
want to look something up.
"Now what was that command called? I know it was either FLUSH or COMMIT, so
why don't I look up both?..."
BTW "commit" is SQL terminology, although in a slightly different context
(In clipper, you can't rollback if you haven't committed, etc.) so don't
flame them for not using YOUR terminology.
--
Paul Tomblin, Department of Redundancy Department. ! My employer does
I'm not fat..... I'm metabolically challenged. ! not stand by my
Would someone please tell me what diddy-wah-diddy means? ! opinions....
pt@geovision.gvc.com or {cognos,uunet}!geovision!pt ! Me neither.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!geovision!pt From: pt@geovision.uucp (Paul Tomblin) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Clipper Message-ID: <1271@geovision.UUCP> Date: 16 Nov 90 14:01:53 GMT References: <1990Nov5.154256.371@bluemtn> <1990Nov05.184139.3864@xenitec.on.ca> <15688.2742b34f@levels.sait.edu.au> Organization: GeoVision Corp., Ottawa, Ontario Lines: 26