Thanks for using the dBASE IV product. The initial customer response to the dBASE IV product has been positive and this confirms the product's overall quality. In keeping with our commitment to provide you, the user, with support that will maximize your productivity with the dBASE IV product, we are continuing our tradition of publishing timely, detailed anomaly and work-around reports. Use of these recommended work-arounds will aid you in avoiding anomalies that are reported to our Software Support Center. This report will be supplemented as new information is received. Reports DETAIL BAND double space ejects blank page If the DETAIL BAND is set to double spacing on a printed report, one blank page is ejected between each printed page and printed pages are numbered 1, 3, 5, etc. WORK-AROUND: To work around this, you can do one of four things: 1) Close the footer band. This corrects the problem but it also prevents printing of any specified footer. The footer is open by default in the Quick layout, so this will not be intuitive to the end user. 2) Change the page length to a value less than the line length of the paper, which is 66 for 11-inch long paper. While blank pages will no longer appear between printed pages, page numbers will still be odd numbers. 3) Modify the report and put extra blank lines in the DETAIL BAND and keep spacing set to single for the band. The effect will appear to be a double spaced DETAIL BAND, however, this will not work when using memo fields in the DETAIL BAND. 4) Download the file REP_ANOM.ARC from the dBASE IV library and copy the REPORT.GEN file over the REPORT.GEN in your dBASE IV directory. EEMS is not supported in dBASE IV version 1.0 Extended and expanded memory are not supported in version 1.0 of the dBASE IV product. Extended memory can only be used as a RAM disk. If you set EEMS=OFF in CONFIG.DB as stated in the Language Reference, the error message "Keyword not found" will be displayed. The two references to the use of extended memory in the documentation -- page 6-4 of Language Reference and page GS-3 of Getting Started with dBASE IV -- are in error. Memo edit from BROWSE In BROWSE mode only, adding more than 512 bytes of data to a memo field that already contains data, pressing ESC to exit the BROWSE menu after the memo field is saved corrupts the memo file. This happens only when the record pointer is not moved before pressing ESC to exit BROWSE. WORK-AROUND: To work around this, exit BROWSE by pressing CTRL-W or CTRL-END, or by choosing the "Save changes and exit" option from the EXIT menu. Alternately, move the cursor off the current record before pressing ESC to exit BROWSE. Memo fields limit size of 64K Memo fields cannot contain more than 64K of data. If you attempt to save a memo field that exceeds this size limit, the system beeps without displaying an error message. WORK-AROUND: To work around this, you can press ESC to abandon the changes, or you can delete some text and try to save the memo field again. CTRL-BREAK locks the system If CTRL-BREAK is pressed while in the dBASE IV program, subsequent keystrokes are not recognized thus requiring a warm boot. The same is true if CTRL-BREAK is pressed while loading the dBASE IV program. Do not use CTRL-BREAK unless you intend to completely stop the dBASE IV product or application.