Funny you mention that, Dennis. I'm converting an old 4.5 dos app to 9.1. Whoever the programmer was on the 4.5 app never used "set var" and did what you show below -- just had the name of the variable (which is how you would program in Visual Basic, so I can see the validity of the syntax, although I personally have never once used it in RBase).
When I tested pieces of his 4.5 code in the dos 7.6, these "set var-less" commands would fail. We needed to run the dos and windows side by side til we got it all converted, and I didn't want to waste the client's money modifying their 4.5 code so that it would run in 7.6 dos. I'd rather spend it upgrading to windows! So RBTI nicely let them purchase an old 6.5 dos version of RBase, which still ran that syntax without errors. Installed the dos a couple weeks ago and now starting the upgrade. Karen In a message dated 5/12/2011 6:21:03 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > I found the issue. > > 7.6 will let you (sometimes, not always) > Use this syntax > > vWhatever = (expression) > > the compiler needs > > SET VAR vWhatever = (expression) > > > > Dennis McGrath > > > >
