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Roy, I agree that the Compaq looks like a nice machine, but it's kind of pricey. I've been leaning towards the Epson ActionNote 486SLC/33. It lacks a PCMCIA slot, docking bay and that really nice active matrix display, but it's also less than half the cost of the Compaq. It…
Robert, Thanks, that's the kind of info I'm looking for. The hardest part is knowing what questions to ask. I think I've got the dope I need on the spread sheet and DB, and I know Prowrite will read straight ASCII files, so now I need to find a Messy-Dos…
Roy, I looked at and played with some laptops before I posted the message. I also talked to some Messy-Dos types. By them the minimum system is a 386 or better, 4 megs ram, 120 meg hard drive (and that probably should be run with "disk doubler" software),DOS6.0 and Windows3.1.…
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RexxArp Help
Message #36827
Bob – One more try at this. Here is the actual code I used to try to test the screentoback function. If there is nothing obviously wrong with this code, I'm just going to assume that Superplan does not set up the screen properly vis a vis Arexx. BTW as…
Roy, Even though I'm set in my ways, so was mine // RSL Finally entering the 20th century \\// Via Autopilot
Roy Well I've had an A3000 for some time now and I've just downloaded AP. Before that I used a little program called Wombat(Xmodem for data transfer). I never downloaded Whap. And I've never even tried to use AREXX until last month. I guess I feel like I'm at least…
RexxArp Help
Message #36761
Bob – First thanks for all the help. If I can figure out a few things the RexxArpLib may be a great deal of help. The first problem is that I want to use programs with Arexx ports, SbPro4 and SuperPlan, for example, and switch back and forth between them.…
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Arexx windows
Message #36616
Thanks to you too. As soon as I get a chance to try Switchwindo I'll let you know how it worked. Roger
Thanks for the info. I just downloaded the library and I'll give it a try Roger
Thanks for the help. Maybe there's a support library out there to handle windows. Any help will be appreciated Roger
#Arexx windows
Message #36355
I'm fairly new to AREXX and I've got a question. If you have two applications running and want to enter data into one, process that data, transfer it to the other application and then view and/or edit the data in the second application, how do you move the windows of…
keyboard buffer
Message #57954
Neil Thanks for the help on startup I'll give it a try and see if it works. I didn't think you could have multiple startup programs in the main SBPro4 directory. Now I've got a wierd problem I don't know what to do to correct. At one point in my…
#icon startup
Message #57889
Niel Thanks for the prompt help. That looks like it will solve the error trapping problem. Any suggestions on how to start seperate SBP4 apps form different icons ? Other DBs I've seen allow a command line, ie. "SuperBasePro4 AppName". I can use ICONX to do that, but I can't…
SBPro4 icons ErrorTrap
Message #57454
A couple of quick questions. 1) Is there a convienient way to launch seperate SBP4 applications from seperate icons. Startup won't work unless it can tell which icon was clicked, or am I missing something ? 2) What is the best way to use ON ERROR ? I know which…
superplan registration
Message #38151
Pat I just bought a copy of Superplan. From reading this forum I know it needs some work, but I needed a spreadsheet now, and you do promise an upgrade. My question is what do I do with the registration ? Should I send it to Precission or Oxxi ?…
#SBPro4 info xchg
Message #36773
Betty, Two questions/suggestions I've been following the Oxxi/Precision message section since I got my copy of SBPro4, and I've noticed a number of repeat questions. I've also picked up threads in the middle that piqued my interest. Would it be worth having a Q/A section in the library where edited…
#SBPro4 examples
Message #36772
Pat First, while I agree that few people bought SBPro4 to balance a checkbook, I bet NOBODY bought a C compiler to print Hello World on the screen either, but you have to start somewhere, right ? I, for one, would welcome screen templates and programming examples that illustrate the…
I used PDR for more than a year with few problems, it does have some quirks, and one or two bugs, but what program doesn't. Unlike Bill's comment on DataRetrieve's docs, the docs with PDR are pretty good. The program is also fairly intuitive to use, if not to program,…
#BUG FIXES
Message #26399
O.K. an update is on the way to correct a few minor bugs, but what bugs ??? Right now I can't save a form with command strings attached to the pushbuttons(see my previous message). Steve may find this a minor inconvenience in queries and reports, but when trying to design…
sbfd4 Problems
Message #26110
I am running SBP4 on a stock Amiga 3000/25/100. It was installed in its own partition using the hd install program supplied. Version is 1.0 A/O 4/5/91. The problem I'm having is with the form designer. If I try to create a form MOST of the time it will save…
#superbasepro4
Message #26036
What happened to Precision software ???
SCalc HELP
Message #16882
Dale, Thanks for the info. I really don't want to reformat the save file for use in another spreadsheet. I believe in k.i.s.s. -). One of the reasons I liked SCALC is that it doesn't have a million bells and whistles. Quick to learn and easy to set up new…
SCalc HELP
Message #16293
I'm new to the message board and am not sure where to put this. Hope you can help. Also hope it's not too long. I'm hoping someone out there can help. I recently downloaded Dave Haynie's version of SCalc V1.0. It looks like just what I need, not too big…