Subject Re: DBase IV Commands From Marilyn Price <marilyn@mpreflections.com> Date Sat, 21 May 2016 11:15:28 -0600 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 5/21/2016 10:55 AM, Marilyn Price wrote: > > Actually, Ken, it's a little more complicated than that, as dBase IV > didn't have any alter table commands. > > In a program: > use oldtable > copy to temp sdf > copy structure to <some new name> > use <some new name> > locate for fieldname = "oldfieldname" > replace fieldname with "newfieldname" create newtable from <some new name) use newtable > append from temp sdf > > Should do it. However, this is strictly from memory as I no longer have > dBase IV installed and haven't had for over a decade.... > Just realized I left out two commands.  See above -- Marilyn Price www.mpreflections.com