Calling Btrieve in Non-ANSI Mode

Btrieve does not normally conform to ANSI standards but, by default, the Xfh2btr call conversion module makes the necessary calls to the Btrieve run-time system to force it to emulate ANSI behavior. You can, however, choose to operate in non-ANSI mode by setting the FILETYPE Compiler directive to FILETYPE"6".

In this mode of operation, each Micro Focus File Handler operation is mapped to the nearest Btrieve run-time call and no attempt is made to conform to ANSI standards: