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Restricted:
Use of the DICTIONARY
directive is reserved exclusively for Sage
Software Canada Ltd. Its use is beyond the
scope of this document and its syntax has been provided
here only for the sake of completeness. |
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| Formats |
1.
Read: DICTIONARY READ (chan,fileopt)varlist
2. Write: DICTIONARY
WRITE (chan,fileopt)varlist
3. Remove: DICTIONARY
REMOVE (chan,fileopt)
Where:
| chan |
Channel or logical file number of
file containing the data dictionary to access. |
| fileopt |
File options. Supported options for DICTIONARY
include:
| DOM=stmtref
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Missing
record transfer |
| END=stmtref
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End-Of-File
transfer |
| ERR=stmtref
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Error transfer |
| IND=num
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Field number
- <0
for external key
- >0
for internal fields
- =0
file information record
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| varlist |
Comma-separated
list of variables and/or literals. |
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| Description |
The
DICTIONARY directive allows Sage
Software Canada Ltd. to access and maintain the internal
ProvideX data dictionary portions of the ProvideX
databases. It is primarily used within various data
dictonary programs to maintain the dictionary information
on the files. |