Ditto, send the same thing to me and I'll give it a try also. Make sure to
also send the #1 file from the last good backup as well, in case the #1 file
is too corrupt to use.
I've got all the old diagnostic stuff at my fingertips, which I use when
upgrading old databases (always check to make sure you have a good
foundation before building your house!)
Best regards,
Paul Ravina
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-----Original Message-----
From: William Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 10:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
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----- 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
> >
> >
>
>
