Last updated 2/20/04 - gk

Xbase64 TODO's (not necessarily in this order!)
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1) Current updates/fixes as documented on source forge

2) Additional expression support

    a) Close out ticket on source forge

    b) RECNO
       Requires the concept of current DB or USE

       - Set Current table  open, create, select and set, use
       - Update documentation with new functions

    c) IIF
       S/b same as a function

    d) RECNO is broke
    e) STR( "ccc", 2 ) -> returns "ccc" even though length is 2
    f) STR( -52.345, 3 ) -> return -52.345 even though length is 3 
    g) DESCEND does not work, not sure what is should do
    h) DTOC function in testdate program does not work
    i)  Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:10:41 +0500 (YEKT)
       From: Vitaly Fedrushkov <willy@snowyowl.csu.ac.ru>

       Expressions like these are not supported:

       DATE - DATE (= NUM)
       DATE - NUM  (= DATE)
       DATE + NUM  (= DATE)

    j) Empty date (like CTOD("  /  /  ") ) is not handled in many cases.
       In fact, EMPTY() function is not implemented either.

    k) Any other tickets regarding expression logic?

3) rename files
     dbf.cpp ==> xbdbf.cpp

4)  Real deletes

    - test this functionality
    - incorporate into dbfutil1
    - update documentation
    - impact on indices

5)  dbfutil1

    - update to support table and indice name at open



2) 64 bit support

3) Finish up multi user locking support for multiple environments

4) Locking

5) Release 3.0

6) Additional index support 
  - Additional index types (.IDX,.MDX) support

7) Re-install exeception handling

8) Transaction support
    Create a logging routine - 
    put hooks in the PutRecord function to log data
9) Build an SQL front end / module
10) Add client/server support
11) Create library front end for perl.
12) PHP Support
13) Xbase environment programming language/support/command processing 
    environment

14) Create Xbase How To
15) Create Xbase FAQ
 
16) map the xbase function names to standard Dbase names

    opendatabase ==> OpenTable
    CreateDatabase ==>CreateTable




Documentation
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Design
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1)  Extended version of tables to support:

    maybe put info in file with name of filename.xbi, also use same file for 
    xbase locking purposes

    a) auto index opening closing
    b) indicator if real delete is on
    c) 30 byte field names

2)  Think thru design of field names / AUDA storage for expressions



Website
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Proposed Website Functionality

- documentation - migrate all documentation to source forge
- other xbase links
- contribute
- purchase support
- quick reference page