Memo fields

[William James McEachran]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 04:18:42PM -0500, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> William James McEachran propounded (on Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 02:52:29PM -0500):
> | I see from the 5.0.14 read.me files that MEMO fields have now been
> | improved to work in lookups and to print.
> | 
> | I might start using them now :-)
> | Any feedback on 5.0.14 MEMO fields?
> | 
> 
> You're better off than you used to be, but there are still some limits.
> 
> What do you do if your MEMO contents are more than one page?

Currently I use my own note code. Most often I'm using a CALLed version of this
code.  It handles paging etc.  

Are you hinting that MEMO field printout is limited to a single page?. Ugh. 
That puts a damper on things.

The manual (web site version) states that 
"Length and type must be defined as (16,MEMO)" which only seems to apply
to real fields.

If I define a dummy as above the program crashes out when the dummy is
first referenced.  In other words if field ef is defined as "ef(16,memo)" at
the bottom of prc.input and anywhere above I have ' ef="" ' the program crashes
at the assignment.  (dclerk 5.0.14D4). 

I'm obviously supposed to be using the MEMO commands (such as "MEMO xx edit")

I just tried "MEMO lookup(field) edit" and it works as I expect. A bit 
different syntax than I'd expected.  

Can you MID out a memo field? Can you assign some length of a MEMO to a 
regular dummy field?

Lot's of experimenting yet to do ...
-- 

Bill McEachran