ID: Q115933
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Pressing the F2 key in FoxPro places the SET command in the Command window, thereby invoking the View window regardless of the setting of SET COMPATIBLE.
The behavior of the F2 key is not affected by the SET COMPATIBLE command and is therefore inconsistent with the behavior of dBASE IV. When the F2 key is pressed in dBASE IV, the dBASE Control Center is invoked.
To invoke the Catalog Manager in FoxPro version 2.6 for MS-DOS or FoxPro version 2.6 for Windows, issue one of the following commands in the Command window:
DO Chattanooga
-or-
DO ASSIST
To cause the F2 key to invoke the Catalog Manager, place the following line
into your CONFIG.FPW file:
f2 = "assist;"
To invoke the Catalog Manager upon startup of FoxPro, include the line
"CATMAN=ON" (without the quotation marks) in your CONFIG.FP or CONFIG.FPW
file.
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
The Catalog Manager does not exist in versions of FoxPro prior to 2.6.
Additional reference words: FoxDos FoxWin 2.60 KBCategory: kbtool kbprg kb3rdparty kbui kbprb KBSubcategory: FxinteropDbase
Last Reviewed: June 28, 1995