Tom, What version of R:BASE were you using before 1.862?
What happens if you do this: 1. OUTPUT structure.txt 2. UNLOAD STR 3. OUTPUT SCREEN Then edit the resulting structure.txt file and look for the "COMMENT" statements - are they the correct comments or are they the strange ones? I have seen some strange corruption in databases that were originally created in 4.0 and earlier that, even after many, many RELOADs, have strange things in the structure file. I would run a complete unload of structure and data to rebuild the RB1 file. Sami ----------------------------------------------------------- Sami Aaron Software Management Specialists 19312 W 63rd Terr Shawnee KS 66218 913-915-1971 http://www.softwaremgmt.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Eldred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:04 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - hmmm strange happenings > Good Afternoon everyone... > > I have a recent and unusual development here on my end. We are using 6.55++ > 1.862xRT03 on Windows 98 across a Netware 6 network and as of this morning, > all of the descriptions for tables and columns seem to be some what > scrambled. > > There have been no changes to our data structure or other programming, but > in the place of the old descriptions are messages such as "#COM_ID=65565" , > "#COM_ID=65572" ... and where that message doesn't appear the descriptions > are randomly mismatched. > > I attempted to access the same data from a know to be good back up > (11-19-02) and I see the same results. Is there an issue with the in-line > patch 3 and older "legacy" databases or is this a glitch someother way?.... > > any assistance would be greatly appreciated > > thanks > tom
