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Not true. You have something very very wrong.
Daniel Morgan
Calvin Crumrine wrote:
> We're in the process of moving from 7.3.4 on Netware to 8.1.7 on Win2K.
> I was dismayed to discover that the DESC command acts differently on the
> 2 servers. Is this controllable? Maybe the defaults are set differently?
>
> When connected to the 7.3.4 server DESC lists both field names &
> datatypes. When connected to the 8.1.7 server DESC lists only the field
> names. If there's not a default setting I can change is there a script I
> can run to list both field names & datatypes? We've been relying on this
> as a quick way to check the datatypes when writing applications.
>
> TIA.
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