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Last modified: 12 September 1995
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NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

To provide this flexibility, all FirstBase tools optionally read a defaults file after initializing the database. These extra defaults are used to override defaults from the database dictionary.

This flexible defaults file is named .dbase_rc, where the characters dbase represent the actual database name. The file can appear anywhere in the users PATH -- only the first one found is processed.

For now, editing of the defaults file is done using any standard text editor. The format is simple -- each line represents one field. (Though shown on two lines, each entry must be a single line).

Field_Name [-d default] [-c[ab] comment] [-l]
   [-h helpfile] [-A] [-r range] [-m macro]

Note that all attributes from a database field can be modified except field type and length. The ordering of these lines does not matter. See dbdbas(1) and ddict(5) for descriptions of these attributes.

FILES

.dbase_rc

default name of FirstBase database defaults file

SEE ALSO

FirstBase User's Guide and Reference Manual