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
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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]
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