The application I use my dbexpert for is a litle address book
database. It is named "phonebook.dbe".
If I start dbexpert, the program starts okay. I select "open
application" and then there is a list and I pick "phonebook.dbe". It
then gives me a window titled "phonebook.dbe" with Maintable
highlighted (there is only one table in this simple application, which
I guess I named Maintable long ago). But if I click Maintable, I
get an error popup that says "error opening Table 'Maintable' and
that's it.

If I start dbexpert and select "Create application", it prompts me for
a new application name and I enter apple.dbe. It then gives me a
window titled "apple.dbe" with nothing in it and I select "New" and it
gives me an empty table with the default title "Table1". I enter
"blah" in the field name, accept Text for the field type and write
"blah" in the Description field.

Then I click Save and accept the name "table 1" and it says "error
saving table".

I have e:\dbexpert; in PATH, LIBPATH, and DPATH and C:\os2 has the
odbc* .ini files suggested.

I would love to try the dbexpert installation program if anyone could
send it to me. I only have three executables in my dbexpert
directory: dbexpert.exe, , odbcadm.exe and qeinfo.exe. There are no
command files and the readme files and onboard help do not describe
installation procedures.

Thanks.

Tim

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:13 PM, David Azarewicz<david@...> wrote:
>
>
> On my system I have dbexpert in PATH, my LIBPATH, and HELP.
>
> You may need to reload the tables in dbexpert (File->Change Physical Table),
> especially if your tables are in a different place now. What exacly is your
> error?
>
> I have archives of the dbexpert install files if you need them.
>
> David
>
> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 11:57:26 -0400, Tim Stephen wrote:
>
>>I'm still digging out from my recent disk-trashed ecs system. For
>>some reason I've got a brain block about DBexpert which I use for my
>>address book. I wonder if anyone else is using dbexpert and might be
>>able to help. I have a licensed copy of dbexpert on one of my data
>>disks in a \dbexpert directory. It starts to run but won't show
>>tables from databases with a fatal error. The data's okay. I figure
>>in a stituation like this (1) some dll needs to be in c:\os2\dll or
>>(2) the dbexpert directory needs to be in libpath, path, and/or dpath.
>> Archived copies of config.sys from systems that were running my
>>dbexpert successfully don't contain any path references to dbexpert
>>and I've added dbexpert directory to all the paths and no difference.
>> I've reviewed archived lists of the contents of the c:\os2\dll
>>directory and I don't see anything that looks like a missing DLL . So
>>I'm stumped. Of course I can't find the 10 year old install disks for
>>the program. But the thing is I've shifted it around machines a bunch
>>of times and never had this trouble. I assume its some brain-blocked
>>oversight on my part.
>>
>>Grateful for any ideas.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Tim
>>
>>
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