Speaking of the Apple II AppleWorks was an excellent example of the days when changing the length of a field required the entire database to be picked up and layed back down again.
And if you didn't have enough room to do that, you had to write it all to 35 floppy disks and then reload them. -----Original Message----- From: Colin Alfke <[email protected]> To: 'U2 Users List' <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Oct 18, 2012 11:53 am Subject: Re: [U2] Selection Suggestions for using UV instead of SQL In my first programming class in high school (on apple IIe's) we liked to use G$ (with the $ pronounced as string).... Colin -----Original Message----- From: Bill Haskett Sent: October 18, 2012 12:24 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Selection Suggestions for using UV instead of SQL Sort of a carry-over from VB when a string was given a variable name with a '$' in it, usually at the end, or the beginning. Habits die hard. :-) Bill _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
