Ted,

We can both come up with many dBase compatible commands (say, SET SQL
ON/OFF) and dBase compatible functions (PCOUNT() was better than
PARAMETERS() or ID())...but I don't remember a dBase compatible PROPERTY.

Bill Anderson


>
> > At 09:35 2014-09-10, Bill Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> (NapTime)
> >>
> >> I did some research on this...after all, this vital detail was somehow
> >> missed by all the Hacker's Guide books...
> >>
> >
> >      Gasp!  No!
> >
>
> Hard as it is to believe, there were things deep inside the language even
> we did not tease out.
>
> I wonder if NAPTIME is a dBASE-compatible thing; there were a couple of
> 'reserved' keywords that were on the list just because they were a dBASE or
> Clipper term, and the Fox Team wanted to avoid hard to chase down
> incompatible behaviors. A quick web search yields no clues.


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