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DICTIONARY Directive
Data Dictionary Access
Restricted: Use of the DICTIONARY directive is reserved exclusively for Sage Software
Canada Ltd. Its use is beyond the scope of this document and its syntax has been
provided here only for the sake of completeness.
Formats
1. Read: DICTIONARY READ(chan,fileopt)varlist
2. Write: DICTIONARY WRITE(chan,fileopt)varlist
3. Remove: DICTIONARY REMOVE(chan,fileopt)
Where:
chan
Channel or logical file number of file containing the data dictionary to access.
File options. Supported options for DICTIONARY include:
fileopt
ERR=stmtref Error transfer
IND=num Field number
<0 for external key
>0 for internal fields
=0 file information record
varlist
Comma-separated list of variables and/or literals.
Description
The DICTIONARY directive allows Sage Software Canada Ltd. to access and maintain
the internal ProvideX data dictionary portions of the ProvideX databases.