The Sinclair QL Forum

Hello fellow moonraker (obviously I'm an import, not even being born in the UK). Which end of the county are you? I'm almost on the far western edge, almost literally a stone's throw from BANES.

She must like shoes! ;) Access not a database? Heh heh. Not biting. It does what it aims to do very well. Would I trust client data to it if I could avoid it? Nope. I've never got around to using Firebird. No idea why really, it seems so feature rich and well thought out. Nowadays I reach for Postgr...

NormanDunbar wrote:I'm an Oracle DBA by day

My commiserations

Heh, heh.

Thanks everyone. This is really a great community of people here - always so helpful. (we really need a thumbs up or clap emoji!).

NormanDunbar wrote:I'm over 60 now, so things are aging out of cache

That made my day!

pjw wrote:I only found out about the usr function many years after Id given up on it. I don't know if it would have helped..

Hi pjw - I can't find that function mentioned - can you explain what it does and maybe show an example? Thank you!

Thanks Dilwyn! Hah, hah - way too obvious now you mention it - I assumed the Members option was for existing members and must have discarded it without thinking.

Hi pjw - my update to my original post must have overlapped with your response as I updated the code in to what you had - it was a transcription error on my part, I had indeed used the quotes in the original attempt, so it was not that. I have no idea why the mdv version works, but happy it does. Ye...

I just tried with the MDV version 2.3.8 instead of the FLP version, and it works. Hey ho. No idea why, but at least I can resume my adventures in Archiveland.

Hi, I started the Archive tutorial recently with a view to learning this properly next weekend, and have come up against a problem early on. I am on page 11 of the QL manual's Archive section, "Creating a File" I type new to reset Archive and then create the books file by typing: create &q...