Recent content by lasitter

I want a feature that I doubt any phone has, but that some of us could find useful. I have the option to turn off the ringer completely, and to set the number of rings before answering. Here's my problem: I'm currently deluged (aren't we all?) with robocalls. I have "nomorobo" and it's great...

(Preamble: In a perfect world everything would stay backed up, be protected by RAID or other redundant technology, and the threat of lost data would never be an issue. In real life, my friends give me drives that are unresponsive for a variety of reasons, and the following scenario is one I...

My current understanding of modern IDE drives is that the uCode ROM on the electronics package is just smart enough to spin the drive up, at which point the drive loads the rest of its instructions (RAM uCode) from a special location on the platters (minus / service tracks), and when that info...

I must confess to still being a bit lost here ... ------------- > \dbase\dbase startup.prg [{F8}{13}%1{13}]{27}{27}] Are the square brackets actually typed in or no? > F8 is a predefined: ON KEY LABEL F8 DO keyF8 WITH xTxt Is "keyF8" a procedure with "xTxt" as a parameter? Is it located in...

So what I want to do is pass startup.prg a parameter from the DOS command line such that it fills in the value for: USE ? Or whatever the syntax needs to be, thereby automatically starting dBase and using the file. What does the DOS command line look like (an example), and what's the syntax...

I'm trying to set a file association in windows such that when I double-click on a dbase file, dbase is started by windows and automatically uses that file. I have no problem creating the association, but dBase thinks anything passed to it "%1" is a program, and chokes when attempting to...