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Hi,
I just recently joined the list
and have been monitoring the firehose stream of conversations concerning
things about which I am clueless. I was delighted to see someone post a "duh"
question and receive help. Here's another one:
I wrote an application for my
remodeling business so many years ago I forget which version it was. It's funky
and has quirks I could never fix but manage to work around, and I was never able
to get it to work on the office LAN, even after buying and upgrading to DOS 6.0
with lan pac from RBTech, but it tracks leads, dispatches invoices and does job
costing just fine, so I keep riding the old mule. .
I haven't tried to
do anything to improve the application for the past two or three years,
assuming that R:base was finally dead, and that it was time to learn Access.
That's just talk, of course, because I have no time to run a company, do
the sales calls and go through basic training on another whole language.
We use Peachtree for our accounting, but that won't do what my app
will do, so again, we double enter and cuss a lot.
Things came to a head recently
with a Windows crash, which involved some fancy footwork to save the R:base
program and data files. They are back and the application is running, but it
seems that most of the underlying program is gone - no RBedit, no form or report
building, and some commands gone from the R>, like "edit" which returns the
message, "help screen not available."
The answer of course is to
reinstall R:base, and I rummaged through boxes to find the original floppies.
Pop the first disk in, hit the "run" button in Win98, and type a:\install. A DOS
screen comes up, and the message "cannot access drive E. abort/fail/retry?" In
desperation I turned to the web and found that there are still R:basers out
there. So here's my "duh" question:
What am I doing wrong here?
Thanks!
Jack
Phillips
Bath Masters
Inc. Custom Bath Remodeling
Signal Hill,
California
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