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  1. willyw

    Formatted text output from dBase 5

    That would be fine with non-proportional spacing, but with proportional the 1s will close up and move the point to the left, assuming the start position is the same.
  2. willyw

    Formatted text output from dBase 5

    Thanks for the tips. Is PICTURE '##.##' supposed to work with proportional spacing? I don't see how it can, because you would have to position the number vertically with {ESC}&a##C. Then how would the dec point fall under the one in the line above? I would love to solve this one!
  3. willyw

    Formatted text output from dBase 5

    Does anyone know of any way of improving the formatting capability of dbase? For example, I want to print a report with numeric columns aligned on decimal point, but I also want to use proportional spacing. As far as I know, dbase cannot do this, but maybe I can feed a tagged text file into...
  4. willyw

    INSTALLING DBASE ON XP

    Thank you, karmic and dbMark, for responding. Yes, I've run it on 2 machines coming off a Windows 2003 server. There are 16 machines in all. Karmic, what happened that forced you to set up a dfs root (so that I can look out for it)? btw, I stopped using SCAN under Novell because of unreliability.
  5. willyw

    INSTALLING DBASE ON XP

    I am about to migrate a large dbase 5 system from Novell to XP. I've tested it and it seems to be OK. Does anyone know of anything that might go wrong, apart from SCAN? I note karmic's comment about disabling opportunistic locking. I'd like to ask him or anyone else whether this means that...

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