With a pack, the files will keep their rights. A reload creates new files so you would need new rights. I set the rights at the directory level so I don't need to worry about individaul files.
The files sizes will not necessarly be the same between a pack and a reload. A reload will be more efficient than a pack. A reload rebuilds the database from scratch where a pack just moves stuff around in the same database. In this day and age of large inexpensive hard drives, there is no reason to ever do a pack. You might on occasion need to do a PACK KEYS, but my opinion is if you need to do that, you just as well reload the whole database. Troy Sosamon ===== Original Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 10/11/02 1:22 pm >G-Day all > >Does anyone know off the top of their head if I run reload >on a database on a Netware network then will the files loose >their rights like files that are deleted. I say this cause >I know when I patched with latest Rbase beta patches that >replaced the RBG65.exe and so other files in the patch all >groups and users in netware lost their rights on these files. > >I didn't know if the same would occur during a reload or not >on netware.. Additional Info. I have a couple of senario's for >people running RBase.. I set up groups in netware and in these >groups I assign rights to all the files needed to run rbase on >network. I assign other rights like databases and such (which >are all in the same dir as the rbase executeable) in another group >so it's easier to manage (mabye?). The one hassle is just what I >am talking about, when I kill a file the rights have to be reassigned. > > >Another question.. it seems to me that persons on this list and >what I have read in the Syntax that there should be no differences >between the rb? file sizes whether a reload or pack is issued. I >ran a reload on a local database and the files sizes never changed. >I then out of curiosity ran a pack and the files did shrink some.. >Am I crazy? - don't go into to much detail - ha,ha. I'm using >RBase DOS65 842_RT03 > >Thanks >Jim Limburg > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More >http://faith.yahoo.com >================================================ >TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: >Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l >================================================ >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l >================================================ >TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: >http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
