Click above to get retro games delivered to your door ever month!

DBU.EXE            Create database, index, and view files


Syntax:        DBU [/<color directive>] [<file>]

Arguments:     <color directive> determines whether the DBU screen
               display is color or monochrome according to the following
               values:

                . /C = use color even if monochrome
                . /M = monochrome (don't use color)

               The default is the result of ISCOLOR().

               <file> is the name of a View (.vew) or database
               (.dbf) file to open and Browse.  If a view and database
               file have the same name, the View is loaded unless the
               database file is specified with an extension.

               Note: Arguments can be specified in any order.


Notes:         . When DBU loads it looks for its help file (Dbu.hlp) in
                 the current directory or in \CLIPPER.

               . DBU is provided as source code and must be compiled and
                 linked with CLIPPER.LIB and EXTEND.LIB.  To perform
                 this operation, use MAKEDBU.BAT.

                 Note: MAKEDBU.BAT assumes that both CLIPPER.LIB and
                 EXTEND.LIB are located in \CLIPPER.

               . Source files:

                    Dbu.prg
                    Dbu.hlp
                    Dbucopy.prg
                    Dbuedit.prg
                    Dbuhelp.prg
                    Dbuindx.prg
                    Dbustru.prg
                    Dbuutil.prg
                    Dbuview.prg

               . The maximum number of files DBU can open is 14.  To
                 change this, edit line 102 of DBU.PRG changing
                 "n_files" from zero to the maximum number of files you
                 want to allow open.

               . The maximum number of fields that the DBU browse window
                 can display is 64.