I can certainly accept that (its supposed to be another form of communication, not a means to stop it!)
I want your feedback on:discuss is the reference data. DXBase uses the Jet database engine (commonly called Access) for data storage. DXBase gives you the functionality to modify ref data and those who own a copy of MS Access 98 (the version that is compatible with the current version of DXBase) can do even more creative things with the reference data (add new fields. etc.) Thia is a real luxury that no other logging program I am aware offers (since most of the data access logic is proprietary or you are never informed what system tools you could use to modify things). As with most things in life, this luxury comes with a cost and a responsibility. I am a big believer in making updates an automatic function (if you enable the automatic update function in a preference). So, when new prefixes, countries, qsl mgrs, program updates, etc.) would be downloaded from my server and applied. Hopefully, this sounds good to you! However, the only real way to do this without incredible complexity is to backup the old data tables, replace them with the new tables then pro grammatically re-initialize the new tables. This means that any of you who have manually manipulated these tables will lose those changes. So, what is your feeling about this? How many of you are modifying these tables and what is the nature of the changes? How would you feel if we can dramatically improve the frequency/turnaround/process of updates at the sacrifice of your ability to add new fields, etc (or at a minimum leave it to you to figure out how to import that data from the old backup table)? 73 Neal k3nc ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
