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From: dent@DIALix.oz.au (Andrew Dent)
Subject: tips for Fox programmers 
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 21:05:07 WST 

The following is a long list of tips for FoxBase+/Mac programmers
(although many are generally applicable to Foxbase).

ABOUT THESE NOTES
All copyright to these notes is hereby relinquished and I transfer them to the
public domain. However, please leave this message at the top of the notes. If
you have any corrections or additional hints, forward to me and I will
incorporate them in the notes for future release.

Some of these notes may be a bit cryptic - they were written as more of a
reminder to me when coming back to FB from other environments. Feel free
to call for explanations, or mail me improved descriptions!

16th March 1993

Andy Dent
A.D. Software, 94 Bermuda Dve, Ballajura Western Australia 6066
phone/fax 61-9-249-2719
CompuServe 100033,3241
Internet   dent@dialix.oz.au

PS I have a couple of nifty shareware XCMDS for double-clicking Browse &
external scrolling list dialogs, with their own arrays!



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DUPLICATE RECORD, OR CARRY FORWARD
Normally you can't use the SET CARRY option unless you want to be stuck in APPEND 
mode with all its disadvantages (including the Append menu!).

The following code snippet allows you to use SET CARRY ON to duplicate the
current record, but editing it with a READ. It relies on having an empty format
file for the Append, which exits so fast (due to the ctrl-end in the keyboard
buffer) that there is no flicker.

set carry on
set format to empty
keyboard(chr(23))
append
set format to test   && the real format file
read

NOTE
The standard technique to duplicate a record is COPY TO a temp file and then
APPEND FROM.