Subject Re: xbase commands
From Bill S <bills@gra-inc.com>
Date Thu, 12 Dec 2019 15:56:39 -0500
Newsgroups dbase.getting-started

Thanks to you and other who responded. I guess I will taek the advise to download a trial version and see how it works with my current code.

/Bill


Mervyn Bick Wrote:

> On 12/12/2019 19:07, Bill S wrote:
> > I'm a long-time user of dBASE Plus 2.8; am completely dependent on traditional xbase commands such as TOTAL and CALC and have no desire to update my code to OODML.
> >
> > My very basic question: Do later (and current) versions such as Plus 8...12 and dBASE 2019 handle these traditional xbase commands? Is there a list somewhere showing what xbase commands are NOT recognized in current versions of the software?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
>
> As far as I know all the XDBL commands supported by dBASE Plus 2.8 are
> still supported by dBASE 2019.
>
> When dBASE moved from DOS to Windows some XDML commands such as  @...SAY
>   and @...GET were dropped but nothing has been dropped since.
>
> Mervyn.
>
>