Thoroughbred Basic Utilities

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Preface

Thoroughbred Basic is a business BASIC designed to meet the needs of developers who design, code, enhance, and maintain business applications. The Thoroughbred Basic language is part of the Thoroughbred Environment, part of the Thoroughbred 4GL Environment, or part of the Thoroughbred OPENworkshop Environment.

The Thoroughbred Basic Utilities Manual contains descriptions of the Thoroughbred Basic Utilities, a set of programs that enable you to perform commonly required maintenance functions on programs and files.

This manual is part of a Thoroughbred Software International documentation library that includes the Thoroughbred Basic Developer Guide, the Thoroughbred Basic Language Reference, the Thoroughbred Basic Quick Reference Guide, the Thoroughbred Basic Installation and Upgrade Guide, and the Thoroughbred Basic Customization and Tuning Guide.

Notational Symbols

BOLD FACE/UPPERCASE: Commands or keywords you must code exactly as shown. For example, CONNECT VIEWNAME.
Italic Face: Information you must supply. For example, CONNECT viewname. In most cases, lowercase italics denotes values that accept lowercase or uppercase characters.
UPPERCASE ITALICS: Denotes values you must capitalize. For example, CONNECT VIEWNAME.
Underscores: Displays a default in a command description or a default in a screen image.
Brackets [ ]: You can select one of the options enclosed by the brackets; none of the enclosed values is required. For example, CONNECT [VIEWNAME|viewname].
Vertical Bar |: Piping separates options. One vertical bar separates two options, two vertical bars separate three options. You can select only one of the options
Braces { }: You must select one of the options enclosed by the braces. For example, CONNECT {VIEWNAME|viewname}.
Ellipsis . . .: You can repeat the word or clause that immediately precedes the ellipsis. For example, CONNECT {viewname1}[ [, viewname2] . . . ].
lowercase: displays information you must supply, for example, SEND filename.txt.
Brackets [ ]: are part of the syntax and must be included. For example, SEND [filename.txt] means that you must type the brackets to execute the command.
punctuation: such as , (comma), ; (semicolon), : (colon), and ( ) (parentheses), are part of the syntax and must be included.

In this guide

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