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excerpt: "We have a tip that may help some of you who are just starting to create dbf files with ARCHIVE. Suppose, for example, you have typed in 50 some odd records and then discover you have forgotten a field you need. The usual method of correcting this is to write a short procedure from Within…"
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# Adding Fields in Archive

We have a tip that may help some of you who are just starting to create dbf files with ARCHIVE. Suppose, for example, you have typed in 50 some odd records and then discover you have forgotten a field you need. The usual method of correcting this is to write a short procedure from Within ARCHIVE that will create a new file with the extra field and then copy the old data into this new one. You then have to go through each record and add the new data in the new field.