[RBASE-L] - Re: Base executable identification

[Bruce Cameron]

I had a number of answers to my query, all probably good, but at the 
current time not needed. When my system went to outer Mongolia, and I 
reloaded the OS [WIN-XP PRO] of course the registry was gone and 
almost no programs would run. Now, for the database R-Base, maybe it 
could, but the shortcut on the desktop was gone so where was it. I 
found the actual databases all right, and confirmed that they were 
R-Base, and could in R-Base look at the 4 files, but the USE of the 
files was not there. Fortunately I had done a backup, Retrospect. 
earlier, and with that, in the'Documents and ....'  in the bootup 
partition I found the shortcut - and lo and behold, it worked, and I 
am back with my simple database operation. Thanks for the help, but a 
few hours after my query, I found a way!! Maybe I am lucky, a program 
as old as the version I used was not in the registry, which registry 
disappeared with the reinstallation, and that old R-Base still worked.


This is probably trivial in a sense. I am not an extensive user of
Rbase, in fact only one application, a simple database that I have
used for well over 5 years. Just a while ago, complete computer
crash, reinstall the OS, in this case XP-PRO. I can find the shortcut
to my working program with the database, and the database files, but
not the application itself. I can open Rbase and look at the
datafiles, but there must be there a program that 'runs' the system
as I use it. But I do not know what that application is called, or my
real question, the file type.