Re: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements

2005-04-16 Thread Mark Johnson
. - Original Message - From: Roger Glenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 10:29 PM Subject: Re: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements Probably a left over. Way back in early Microdata. You could only open one file at a time. There was no TO clause

Re: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements

2005-04-16 Thread Roger Glenfield
Can't say for sure. I remember seeing it in one of the old programs that I had to work on in 1976/77. So I'm guessing very early Basic. After all, as we all know. Kevin only wanted to get a football program running. So he probably didn't worry that much about data files. Roger Mark

Re: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements

2005-04-16 Thread Allen Bell
Who's Kevin? Do you mean Ken Simms? Roger Glenfield wrote: Can't say for sure. I remember seeing it in one of the old programs that I had to work on in 1976/77. So I'm guessing very early Basic. After all, as we all know. Kevin only wanted to get a football program running. So he probably

RE: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements

2005-04-16 Thread Bill H.
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 7:00 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements Call me old-school but I prefer top-down OPEN file TO handle ELSE STOP (sic) to get them all out of the way. Whether 1 or 50 files, the get all

Re: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements

2005-04-16 Thread Roger Glenfield
Senioritis has set in. Yes Ken Simms. Allen Bell wrote: Who's Kevin? Do you mean Ken Simms? Roger Glenfield wrote: Can't say for sure. I remember seeing it in one of the old programs that I had to work on in 1976/77. So I'm guessing very early Basic. After all, as we all know. Kevin only

Re: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements

2005-04-16 Thread Mark Johnson
would like to learn of these places that propogated some of the techniques many endorse that may or not be embraced by others. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Jerry Banker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [U2] Multiple

Re: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements

2005-04-16 Thread Mark Johnson
to extending one language's disciplines to another, namely Pick/MV. Thanks - Original Message - From: Bruce Nichol [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 5:35 PM Subject: Re: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements Goo'day, At 15:12 16/04/05 -0400, you wrote

Re: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements

2005-04-16 Thread Mark Johnson
Play on words, eh? There's just no official standards despite what many imply. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 8:19 PM Subject: Re: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements Are you implying it would be better

Re: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements

2005-04-15 Thread Mark Johnson
] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 11:51 PM Subject: RE: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements Mark Johnson wrote: I just acquired a new client and found an interesting programming style that for the life of me I cannot understand why anyone in their right mind would

Re: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements

2005-04-15 Thread Mark Johnson
Is this CLOSE thing a new thing. Haven't seen or heard of it in a quarter of a century. I know it's in MS Basic(s). - Original Message - From: Don Kibbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 7:22 AM Subject: Re: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements

Re: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements

2005-04-15 Thread Mark Johnson
dog... my 1 cent - Original Message - From: Jerry Banker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements - Original Message - From: Don Kibbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] You did mention only a few files

RE: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements

2005-04-15 Thread Derek Falkner
it's worth. Derek Falkner Kingston, Ontario, Canada -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 8:29 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements Is this CLOSE thing a new

RE: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements

2005-04-14 Thread Ken Wallis
Mark Johnson wrote: I just acquired a new client and found an interesting programming style that for the life of me I cannot understand why anyone in their right mind would do such a thing. Not on all programs but it seems that for programs that open less than 4-5 files, the programmer

RE: [U2] Multiple OPEN statements

2005-04-14 Thread Stevenson, Charles
You know the funny thing is that programmers who use decent editors don't seem to find the whole indentation thing so challenging. ;^) Cheers, Ken I once declared that UV's FORMAT (as verb or from ED) would be the standard formatter. Programmers grumbled. I said the source is in