If the file2 has had insertions since the last pack or reload, the data
blocks will not be contiguous. I have the old RTools around here somewhere.
I will find them today and make them available (with RBTIs permission
assumed, unless I hear otherwise.)
mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: How to fix old 2.11 file1??
> Ben,
>
> If the files are not too large, I would be willing to attempt to extract a
> couple of tables for you. The underlying structure of the data is known
and
> if you have a starting point it may well be possible to fetch the data
rows
> and produce an ascii equivalent for loading. I believe early versions of
> rbase had fixed row lengths (no note fields?) which simplifies the task.
>
> I nearly idle, retired and between jobs! I would be happy to give it a try
> with no promises and with no charge.
>
> If you choose to let me give it a shot, zip up the files, even the corrupt
> one, and email them with the name of the tables you are interested in.
>
> Bill Cook
> Kent WA
> 253 859 4526
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ben Petersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 7:11 AM
> Subject: RE: How to fix old 2.11 file1??
>
>
> > On 18 Jun 2001, at 15:19, Troy Sosamon wrote:
> >
> > > There was a version of R:scope for 2.11, but it was a bear to use.
> > That's what I have -- v.1.0
> >
> > > I
> > > beleive that the Rscope for 3.x would work on a 2.11 database also.
> > >
> >
> > I'm not sure if I have that... will have to dig deep in the archives.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ben Petersen
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > ===== Original Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 6/18/01 5:16 am
> > > >Hi all,
> > > >
> > > >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.
> > > >
> > > >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.
> > > >
> > > >Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> > > >
> > > >Thanks,
> > > >
> > > >Ben Petersen
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
