Nah, this was just an ( undocumented ) 'feature' of Pick ( and coincidentally McDonnel Douglas ) which 'worked' 'cos the original author 'forgot' to clear the stacked values
jBASE doesn't have an emulation for 'undocumented_features_that_'work'_by_accident_rather_than_by_design' unfortunately ;-) Otherwise we would have needed to implement a periodic GFE just to keep the diehard Pickies happy ;-) Pat. On 6 May, 23:05, "Tony G" <[email protected]> wrote: > Can't find a good place to put this so ... finger circles... > Here! :) > > In Pick you can do this with a 10 attribute A/S dict definition: > > 08 F;12;P;S;_ > > That correlative gives you the last value off of atb 12. A > variant would be to replace the P with the attribute number > again: > F;12;12;S;_ > > Give it 10 points for brevity but -9 for maintainability without > an inline comment. > > Unfortunately, while it's a fairly well known trick in Pick-land > that doesn't work on my jBase v4.1/Windows. Bug? Oversight? > Intentional omission to thwart migrations? Oh, I know... jBase > isn't Pick! :) > > Tony Gravagno > Nebula Research and Development > TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com > Nebula R&D sells mv.NET and other Pick/MultiValue products > worldwide, and provides related development services > remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/blog > > Visit PickWiki.com! Contribute! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Please read the posting guidelines at: http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE/web/Posting%20Guidelines IMPORTANT: Type T24: at the start of the subject line for questions specific to Globus/T24 To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
