mkao@pnet01.cts.COM (Mike Kao) (08/21/87)
Recently, the mailing list file (Appleworks Data Base -- ADB) of our furniture
store crashed. Our AppleWorks version is 2.0, enhanced by Applied
Engineering's RAM enhancement utility. Anyways, the ADB file is segmented into
2 parts: 135K and 18K total. The problem is that when I try to load this
file, AppleWorks doesn't know when the segmented file ends. After loading the
135K segment, it prompts me for the next segment. Very well, I flip the disk
to the 18K part; AppleWorks seems to be reading it fine, THEN it prompts me
for yet another segment, even though that was the last and final one.
I proceeded to check out the directory of the 18K file and found out that the
rest of the 117K was filled up by another file. My hypothesis is that the 18K
segment should have been bigger, but AppleWorks ran out of space and somehow
quit. What I need to know is how the Data Base structures these ADB files.
What must I do to manually patch up this file? If my hypothesis is
correct, then the file was never ended properly and somehow indicates to
AppleWorks upon loading that there should be another segment. Please help!!
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-- Mike Kao
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