Subject Re: Xbase Ṣelect
From Mervyn Bick <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Date Thu, 25 Jun 2020 22:36:08 +0200
Newsgroups dbase.getting-started

On 25/06/2020 20:48, Joshua Oyeladun wrote:
> I encountered an issue when using xbase I used it 10 times from SELECT A through SELECT J but  when I got to SELECT K. I got an error alias not found. Please what can I do to have about 12 alias open simultaneously?
> Thank you
>

I think SELECT A through SELECT J dates back to dBASE III+ which only
allowed 10 workareas.  The later versions of dBASE allow up to 225
numbered workareas.

Open your tables as follows

use whatever1 in select()
use whatever2 in select()
....
use whatever11 in select()
use whatever12 in select()
....
use whatever25 in select()


select 3  // or select whatever3
list
select 11 //or select whatever11
list
select 24 // or select whatever24
list

Mervyn.


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