Subject Re: dBase Tutorial HELP needed
From Mervyn Bick <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Date Tue, 15 Mar 2022 15:37:48 +0200
Newsgroups dbase.getting-started

On 2022/03/15 14:50, Jake Herlihy wrote:

> Mervyn- Thank you for your quick response.
 >
> Tried to Email via TBird- didn't work
You need to set up your email details in Thunderbird.  Click on the
three stripes below the X that closes the application.  From the menu
that opens expand New and then select Existing Mail account and follow
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>
> Need more direction on joining tutorial newsgroup on Tbird - but this is more pressing issue.
 >
> Below is where I'm at:
 >
>
> In the Command Panel type   ? _app.inifile   and press Enter
 >
> This will display the following in the Results Panel
 >
> C:\Users\Your_user_name\AppData\Local\dBASE\dBASE2019\Bin\PLUS.INI
 >
> Mark and copy this into the clipboard.
 >
> Close dBASE.   This is important.  If you don't the following won't work.
 >
>
> Open Notepad.  Select Open from the File  menu and paste from the
 > clipboard into the "File name:" entry field and open the file.
 > DID EVERYTHING TO THIS POINT
 >
> NEED MORE PRECISE DIRECTIONS FOR BELOW- SEE CAPS
 >
> Use Ctrl-F to open the Find dialogue window.
 >
>   Enter [Custom] to find the correct section. DIS THIS BUT Find in Notepad searched for Custom in the Text file NOT the Custom folder . I WENT to the Directory & in Custom folder -
 >
>   Delete the line containing MyControls.cc, I THEN DELETED deleted the File MyControls.cc in the Custom folder
 >
> save the file  and close it. I SAVED  the File as MyControls.txt in Custom folder.
 >
>   You can now reopen dBASE. DID THIS - all issues & error messages are UNCHANGED
 >
> WHAT SHOULD the file name be saved as?
 >
> WHERE SHOULD it be located? I'd be happy to put it into every folder on my computer @ this point.
When you open PLUS.INI in Notepad, Notepad should put the edited file
back where it found it once you are done.  The only folder that PLUS.INI
should be in is C:\Users\Your_user_name\AppData\Local\dBASE\dBASE2019\Bin\

When dBASE opens it reads PLUS.INI and if it can't find any file in the
[Custom] section it shows an error.  PLUS.INI must only be edited (with
very few exceptions) with dBASE closed.  If dBASE is open while you edit
PLUS.INI closing dBASE will overwrite your edited file using the "bad"
values it read when it opened.

Once you have removed the filenames from PLUS.INI that dBASE couldn't
find dBASE should open without error.

Mervyn