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I am at the moment writing a menu system under dBase III+ for a large database
system that I am using.

I am having a few problems in my pull down menu system of reading the left
cursor key.  Even though I have an idea what the problem is, and my book tells
me how to get round it, it won't work.

So, this gave me the idea to write it under Turbo C or Turbo C++, and compile
the code to a .bin file, which dBase would then be able to read.

Firstly, I tried converting the .exe file produced from the c code, but exe2bin
refused to touch this.  So I then told the Turbo compiler to produce an
assembly language listing for the C code.  (when I say C code, it was written
in Turbo C++).  I then ran TASM on this, and then linked it using TLINK.  TLINK
gave a couple of error messages about the format of using 'cout' in the
assembler code, but it produced an executable.

So I ran exe2bin on this new executable, and it produced the required .bin file
for me.

Great, I thought.  I then loaded this into dBase without any complaint from the
system, and then I ran it, at which point it hung ...

Any ideas?
David A Nelson

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Mail ID : D.A.Nelson@uk.ac.newcastle