Clipper.. That's a language I haven't heard spoken/written in quite some time. My memory of those days is fuzzy, but I think it was the first language I was paid to work with. A sh*t management app (literally, for a septic tank company).. ha, those were the days.

Peter

By left and right columns, do you mean updating your accounting? Double-entry bookkeeping sucks.

Taxes, everybody's favourite.

Peter, Clipper was very productive for creating bussiness apps for DOS. Built in support for multiple table "databases" and great support for user input (remember PICTURE ?) and something a little like anonymous methods (see http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/petergekko/archive/2003/08/21/1179.aspx) made me use it instead of Turbo Pascal (2). These days, under NT, Clipper apps are an absolute disaster. Even in XP a simple 2 line Clipper app will bring all other software on your PC to a virtual standstill.

Darrel, whichever way you enter all numbers, in the end it allways ens up to adding what comes in and what goes out. If the difference between the two is anything but 0 you've got a problem. Which can take days to solve...

Wow can some one get me a stone, hammer and chisel and i will start learning Clipper :p