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Loaded dbase IV for DOS on an HP laptop. No problem. But when on a Dell Inspiron with exact same settings, the screen is a very small image. Can't expand it. Any solutions?

Loaded dbase IV for DOS on an HP laptop with no problem. When I do this on a Dell Inspiron laptop, the screen is minimized. Same settings as on the HP. Any ideas?

New to dbase plus. When I go to file/open and then athe name of the file in the subdirectory--c:\maildata\abc.dbf I get a Program Alert that says : Error: Command too large. When I ask it to FIX, it says "Contains line longer than maximum of 4096 characters. I've used dbase IV for dos for...

I must be missing something here. I am able to do the query that filters only those appropriate addresses to be printed on letter 1, but how do you get Word to maintain the order of the Excel file (which is in zip code order) but to switch the printing of the 3 documents back and forth so that...

I have a database of 900 names, addresses, city, state, zip, and a few other fields. This is currently in an Excel Workbook. I also have 3 Word documents. Approx 300 records need to get Word Doc #1, 300 get Word Doc #2. and 300 get Word Doc #3. This is a presorted mailing, so I need to keep the...

city is a field name

sounds like that would work, but how do you write this program from the dot prompt?

The version of Dbase is Dbase IV for dos

Using dbase for dos, I want to thin thru a database and eliminate all records where there are less than 100 records per city. What would the syntax be? Is it possible to do this without writing a program? I'm looking for something like: Delete all for city < 100, but of course that is a datatype...