Bernie & Troy,
Yes, Bill helped me out a couple of weeks ago. It's good to know
about the more recent RScope compatibility though.
Ben Petersen
On 22 Jul 2001, at 6:39, Bernie Corrigan wrote:
> Ben & Troy -
>
> Rscope 4.0 works on 2.11 databases. I have encountered several
> databases in that format where the 2 file was broken and the 1 file was off
> and was able to repair them with Rscope 4.0.
>
> Is this the database that Bill Cook took on or a different one?
>
> Bernie
> =======================================
> At 09:15 PM 7/21/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> >Ben,
> >
> >R:scope version 3 works on 2.11 databases. There is also an R:scope version
> >2, but it was a bear to use.
> >If your only problem is the #1 file has the wrong file sizes, you should be
> >able to connect to the database and unload all of the data and then recreate
> >the database. It sounds like maybee the #1 file is correct and you lost part
> >of the #2. I had that happen to a client once. Their #2 file should have
> >been around 80 megs, and all of a sudden one day it became 10 megs. Lucky for
> >them, they had a fairly recent backup.
> >
> >I think I have a copy of ver 3 around somewhere.
> >
> >Troy
> >
> >>===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =====
> >>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
> >
> >Troy Sosamon
> >Denver Co
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
>
>
