The pages on this site contain documentation for very old MS-DOS software,
purely for historical purposes.
If you're looking for up-to-date documentation, particularly for programming,
you should not rely on the information found here, as it will be woefully
out of date.
FIELD statement active
A GET or PUT statement specified a record variable in a
file for which FIELD statements had been executed.
GET or PUT with a record-variable argument can be
used only on a file if no FIELD statements have been
executed for the file.
ERR code: 56