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Q287111: PRB: SET COMPATIBLE ON Causes Error with Gendbc.prg

Article: Q287111
Product(s): Microsoft FoxPro
Version(s): 6.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbDatabase kbvfp600 kbXBase KbDBFDBC kbGrpDSFox kbDSupport kbCodeSnippet
Last Modified: 07-FEB-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 6.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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If SET COMPATIBLE is set to ON and you run Gendbc.prg against a database
container, you may receive the following error message:

  Unrecoverable Error:
  Operator/Operand type mismatch.
  At Line: 438

RESOLUTION
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Before you run Gendbc.prg, make sure that SET COMPATIBLE is set to OFF.

MORE INFORMATION
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Steps to Reproduce Behavior
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1. In the Command window, issue the following command:

  SET COMPATIBLE ON

2. Run Gendbc.prg against the Testdata database by using the following code:

  OPEN DATABASE home(2)+"data\testdata"  
  DO SYS(2004)+'tools\gendbc\gendbc' WITH 'testdata.prg' 

Additional query words:

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Keywords          : kbDatabase kbvfp600 kbXBase KbDBFDBC kbGrpDSFox kbDSupport kbCodeSnippet 
Technology        : kbVFPsearch kbAudDeveloper kbVFP600
Version           : :6.0
Issue type        : kbprb
Solution Type     : kbpending

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