Windowes & ASCII characters

[Richard Kreiss]

One of my clients just upgraded to Windows 10 home and is having a display issue with filePro.  The end of field marker is showing as a question mark (?).

I am trying to figure out why he is having this issue.  He is running filePro 5.0

I downloaded the dcabe help file to see make use of the ASCII chart and the graphics code chart in this help.  Where the end of field character should be (\GZ ) on his system it is q question mark on my system the end of field marker appears correctly.


1.      Does nay one have a suggestion as to what might be causing this issue? I have already checked the code page which is being used and it matches mine.

2.      Does anyone know the ASCII code for the end of field marker?

3.      Anyone have code for displaying the ASCII code for this character within filePro.

I f wrote this routine but it failed as it only read the back slash \

aa="\gZ"

MSGBOX "The ASCII value of aa is"<chr(aa) - this displays as 92 as that is the value for the backslash

The following code display on a screen:

aa="\gZ"
ab=asc(aa)
ac=chr(aa)

aa displays on screen as \gZ
ab displays as 92
ac displays as -

My client did not have this issue when these computers were using Windows 7.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Richard Kriess



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