I also think "MS Access 97 not being sold anymore" would be compelling enough reason to make a change.
73 de Tony, KD4K My Weather Page http://home.adelphia.net/~tonycash/ My Ham Radio Page http://home.adelphia.net/~tonycash/kd4k/radio.html Sawnee Mountain (WB4GQX 147.15 +.600) Repeater Page http://home.adelphia.net/~tonycash/sawnee/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Stordahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:38 AM Subject: Re: [DXBase] DATA CRASH ISSUE > There have been at least 3 revisions issued by MS against the Jet Engine v > 4. AR-Cluster uses Jet 4.x and it is true there were problems initially, > but with the revisions it has become rock solid when used with AR-Cluster. > > I have Office 97, thus I have the older version of Access which will work > with DXBase, but this is no longer offered for sale by MS to my knowledge. > So that is the compelling reason I would say. Perhaps you can tell me if > Office 2000 will still allow you to work with Jet 3.x and to save in that > format as well? My recollection is you can open 3.x but can't save in 3.x > format with the currently available Access. > > Ron N5IN > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 8:10 AM > Subject: Re: [DXBase] DATA CRASH ISSUE > > > > Ken, > > > > I guess you mean Access rather than Excel. During development of the last > > upgrade, we switched to the Microsoft Jet Database engine 4.x which is > what > > is used in Access 2000. We found some serious bugs in the Microsoft > > software and ultimately removed the new code and kept the earlier Jet > > Database engine 3.x. For DXbase purposes this works fine and does all > that > > is needed. If there have been some MS updates, we might take another > look, > > but there is not real compelling reason. > > > > Regards, > > Courtney > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 8:38 PM > > Subject: [DXBase] DATA CRASH ISSUE > > > > > > > As some of you know I had a data crash a couple of hours into CQWW CW... > > > The problem was RF causeing a glitch in the data AND me not knowing > enough > > of > > > the program architecture to swiftly repair it.... > > > > > > BUT I did get it going - and since I was only operating 10m, had all > night > > to > > > figure it out and fix it > > > > > > I have only to enter about a weeks data - which was available via using > > EXCEL > > > and the broken data file - which cant be read by DXbase... > > > > > > > > > Jack, I wonder if the next release will use the latest version of EXCEL, > > > since Excel97 is no longer available??? > > > > > > This was a good learning experience as to the workings of DXbase > > > > > > Cheers - and thanks for a great program > > > > > > Ken K1UM > > > > > > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > > > multipart/alternative > > > text/plain (text body -- kept) > > > text/html > > > The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML > > > or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed. > > > Please post in Plain-Text only.--- > > > _______________________________________________ > > > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > > > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > > > > _______________________________________________ > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >
