Alastair,
Thanks - I'm able to connect, but unload just produces a few rows
of garbage.
Ben Petersen
On 19 Jun 2001, at 9:29, Alastair Burr wrote:
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> Ben,
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> I'm not from what you describe whether you can actually connect to the db but,
> if you can, have you tried simply doing a backup or reload? Sometimes it works -
> you might lose a few rows but but I usually find that it's easier to fix those
> few rows than struggle with repairing the original db.
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> Good luck
> Alastair.
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> "Ben Petersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@sonetmail.com on 18/06/2001 12:16:54
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> Subject: How to fix old 2.11 file1??
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> Hi all,
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> This is one for the old timers... I have a customer using an old
> 2.11 app while waiting for their windows re-write. Discovered today
> that file 1 is corrupt; their most recent "good" back-up is 60+ days
> old. RScope described the file length settings for the #2 and 3#
> as wrong and what they actually are, but correcting those numbers
> didn't help. I also tried using the #1 file from the good backup with
> no luck.
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> One completed module of the windows re-write maintains a large
> part of the old dos DB, to the extent that if I could get two tables
> restored from the Dos DB we could recover w/o to much pain.
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> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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> Thanks,
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> Ben Petersen
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