jeff@hcrvax.UUCP (Jeffrey Roberts) (01/22/86)
I have heard that dBase III will not run properly under DOS 3.1.
Does anyone know if this is true? If so, what problems exist?
Please post any information about this.
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Jeff Roberts
Human Computing Resources
{utzoo,watmath,decvax,ihnp4}!hcr!jeffmr@isrnix.UUCP (michael regoli) (01/24/86)
]:[ Jeff Roberts<...!hcr!jeff> writes: > I have heard that dBase III will not run properly under DOS 3.1. > Does anyone know if this is true? If so, what problems exist? > > Please post any information about this. well, i've heard of a dBASEIII error message "files not accessible" means more than 112 files are on the disk. in order to get around this message, one would obviously have to delete some files or set up subdirectories. this is probably one of many dbIII qwirks that you'll only learn by doing. -- -- .^. michael regoli /|\ ...ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!isrnix!mr '|!|` <mr@isrnix.UUCP>
jeff@hcrvax.UUCP (Jeffrey Roberts) (01/29/86)
Mike Regoli writes: >well, i've heard of a dBASEIII error message "files not accessible" means >more than 112 files are on the disk. in order to get around this message, >one would obviously have to delete some files or set up subdirectories. Actually I am running with more than 120 files on a hard disk in a single directory with no problems. This can't be a major problem that would cause dBase III not to work. ---- Jeff Roberts Human Computing Resources {utzoo,watmath,decvax,ihnp4}!hcr!jeff
rgale@man.UUCP (Ryan Gale) (01/29/86)
In article <681@isrnix.UUCP>, mr@isrnix.UUCP (michael regoli) writes: > Jeff Roberts<...!hcr!jeff> writes: > > I have heard that dBase III will not run properly under DOS 3.1. > > Does anyone know if this is true? If so, what problems exist? > > well, i've heard of a dBASEIII error message "files not accessible" means > more than 112 files are on the disk. I'm running dBase III 1.10 under DOS 3.10, and haven't had any problems like this. Although I keep different projects in their own subdirectories, one of these currently contains 206 files -- and runs fine. I did have a similar problem with Version 1.0, however. Perhaps this is the source of the original rumor? -- ----- Ryan Gale {ihnp4, akgua, decvax} !sdcsvax!man!rgale
lpm@lanl.UUCP (01/29/86)
> I have heard that dBase III will not run properly under DOS 3.1. > Does anyone know if this is true? If so, what problems exist? > > Please post any information about this. > > Since you asked for a posting rather than e-mail, I am posting. I use dBase III and DOS 3.1; I have found one bug that I can not seem to get around, and no one around here has any clues as to the problem. It occurs when I have two files open and am selecting them in different procedure files. My end product will use the Clipper compiler, though, so I just started using Clipper earlier in the development process than I had intended. I have noticed that the display is slightly different in dBase and Clipper, and there are a few minor differences in some of the functions at the "boundaries", for lack of a better word. For example, I use at() to tell me where a substring is found, and then substr() to extract a substring from a different string, but in the same position that at() told me. In dBase, if at() returned a 0, then substr() would also return a zero, even though 0 is not really a good argument for substr(). Clipper does not do this, so I had to code a little more carefully to test for a zero return from at(). Another difference that took a while to find was in the need for public variables for locate/continue loops. If the locate is done in one procedure and the continue is done from another one, dBase is quite content. But Clipper requires that the variable searched on in locate be public, which is not surprising, but it is not documented. I suspect that these differences are really differences; I do not think that they are because dBase does not work with DOS 3.1. And I suspect that the bug I found would be there under DOS 2.1, but I have not tried it. Perhaps I should. Laurie McGavran
flip@osu-cgrg.UUCP (Flip Phillips) (01/29/86)
> ]:[ > Jeff Roberts<...!hcr!jeff> writes: > > I have heard that dBase III will not run properly under DOS 3.1. > > Does anyone know if this is true? If so, what problems exist? > > > > well, i've heard of a dBASEIII error message "files not accessible" means > more than 112 files are on the disk. in order to get around this message, > one would obviously have to delete some files or set up subdirectories. > dont worry... dbaseIII+ is out, it has the same stuff as the developers version of dbiii plus more. It seems to work well on dos 3.1 but i dont know all. flip -- Flip Phillips {ucbvax,decvax}!cbosg!osu-cgrg!flip Computer Graphics Research Group, The Ohio State University