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How can a memory file - mwsales.mem - be printed directly to a printer. I've tried LIST and DISPLAY without success. Thanks...

The client needs to pick an inventory item based on a description contained in two 60 character fields within in a dbf. The approach I'm trying is to create an array - pos_sel(1,3) containing some information about the item - no, class, qty-on-hand - as pos_sel(1,1) and the two description...

Junk folder accumulates all items sent to it. I have been unable to delete all items in the folder. I can select items and press the delete key removing any email over the 1919th item.... For those items 1919 and below I receive the following: "The messaging interface has returned an...

I'm using a GET field for an invoice number. If zero followed by a RETURN, a new invoice is created; if a number is entered followed by a RETURN, the invoice with that number is located. The valid checks the content of the GET and takes the appreciate action. I have heard that using the TAB...

I'm looking for dot matrix printer command codes which would print white letters in a black background. It could be used to differentiate an invoice from a quote. It would be used as in the following example for printing double wide, double height, and bold text: * 2 LINES HIGH, DOUBLE WIDE...

Need to copy Clipper 5.3 DBF to Foxpro DOS DBF, add new fields, and create new index on a new field. Indexing on a new field generates an error # 12 within Foxpro DOS - "Unable to find the new field in the new Foxpro DOS dbf". See thread # 182-1624709 for details from the Foxpro side. It...

Need to use Clipper 5.3 DBFs in a Foxpro DOS application. Clipper DBFs opens, reindexes, and processes correctly in Foxpro DOS application. However, when a new field - phone_no1 - is added to the Clipper DBF using Foxpro DOS and is index on, the following error is generated: ERROR...

A second store is being opened using the same software as the main store. The main store will control adding new product to the application. Once added, a DBF will be created containing the new inventory items. How can the application be modified so the new item DBF can be sent to a FTP site...

Created an array using htc_wn:={} followed by AFILL(htc_wn,"NOT IN USE"). This results in a single cell having the value of "NOT IN USE". Later in the program the statement "htc_wn:={}" is run again. What affect does the second use of the command have on the initial array? (Blanks out...

Client running a Foxpro for DOS LAN application with three printers each attached to a Win XP machine. Two are now in use as LPT2 and LPT3. LPT1 is not being used since it has the potential of conflicts with windows spooling. To provide an LPT port for the third printer, the LPT4 port was...

What is a way for indexing on the first word of a character field? Tried the following but received an error "Invalid key length": INDEX ON LEFT(LTRIM(name1), AT(" ",LTRIM(name1),1)-1) TAG name1 If I enter the above index command manually through the editing of indexes, IT WORKS!!!! - both...

During the conversion of a Clipper application, the following code was encountered: m_seek=0=NO m_seek=1=LOOKUP & SHOW m_seek=2=VALIDATE What is the function of the line and what would be the FoxPro code to replace it? Thanks for the assistance...

I just upgraded my development computer running WinXP Pro OS. All applications including Foxpro apps run correctly. Now, when I open a FoxPro DOS 2.6 project for editing and compiling, the project manager locks up about 50% of the time. This occurs during editing of the PRGs or preparing to...

Now running a REPORT FORM directed to a TXT file. The TXT file displays printer control codes as past of the file when viewed with notepad and when converted to a PDF. When the report is directed to the printer or screen, the control codes are not displayed... This is the first time this has...

Running a report containing a graphic box around some data. Graphics printed when the report was printed to LPT3 and to screen. When output to a text file, the box was showed in ASCII characters. When the text file was opened in the editor, the ASCII box would appear in graphics. How can I...

A large number of text strings have been hard coded into 96 procedures used in a project. Using the list of procedures in the project DBF, I would like to scan all of procedures replacing a given character string with a second character string. In EDIT, you can select a procedure and do a find...

thread182-1367839 Try these items: 1 Place all indexes in CDX file. 1 Index on each field being used by the SELECT. 2 Also index on deleted() as deleted. 3 Do not use compound indexes on the file. 4 Have all temp work files assigned to local drive (C:) 5 Have a copy of the library...

As presented in thread 182-1531139, I'm sending emails from within Foxpro for DOS 2.6. As expected, the client now wants to attach a file to the email. Is there a way for the person sending the email to "BROWSE" through the hard drive, select a file, and have the file and its path loaded into...

I have VFP7. The client has a VFP8 application requiring some support work. Can I use VFP7 to open the VFP8 application, to open the tables, and to recompile as a VFP7 application? I know I should buy VFP9 but I need to put it off as long as I can... One approach is to determine the...

Hi… The client decided to convert his Clipper 5.3 application to FoxPro DOS, which is well underway. The current problem is what needs to be done to convert the Clipper data files and indexes to FoxPro files with CDXs and memos if they exist. An example of some of the files the client sent...