For one that works now but costs you money, try Open Sesame Systems in Toronto or Montreal (Contact Don Ferguson or Moe Nawaz in Toronto at...
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Bret Wiener
bret@...
Dec 18, 1998 8:06 pm
Reponse to problem #2: When you install Magic, after you've entered YOUR LICENSE DATA, you must reboot for the new license data to "take effect". Give it...
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Bret Wiener
bret@...
Dec 18, 1998 8:10 pm
I'm a little unsure about something...does MSE support Magic with Btrieve 7? I thought Btrieve 7 was still an "unknown" and therefore MSE won't support it. We...
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MichaelStewart@...
Dec 18, 1998 8:24 pm
MSE does not currently support Btrieve 7. However, we have been using it in house since it's release without any major problems. The only issue that we have...
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Craig Martin
craig_martin@...
Dec 18, 1998 9:27 pm
... Ah, who needs a marketing department when I have Ian and the mail list... :-) Sorry, my 'holiday39; got in the way but the elves are now busy cooking up some...
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Dave Persons
personsd@...
Dec 18, 1998 9:40 pm
If we take this approach, we could end up writing another Linux! ... -- David D. Persons IS Manager The Vacation Store (757) 437-7516 (757) 437-8290 (fax) ...
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Craig Martin
craig_martin@...
Dec 18, 1998 10:03 pm
... Never under estimate the power of the force! May the Fudge be with you. Craig ("A journey of a thousand leagues must first begin with a single step")...
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Ian Whybrow
sales@...
Dec 18, 1998 10:05 pm
THis may sound like a stupid request, but is there a simple (all-in-one command) that appends a record or several records to an existing table. In X-base...
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Ian Whybrow
sales@...
Dec 18, 1998 10:24 pm
Craig: I have but one thing to say --- ITS ABOUT BLOODY TIME!! :-) :-) :-) Ian...
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Ian Whybrow
sales@...
Dec 18, 1998 10:37 pm
I'm in DAY2 of my 21 days to Delphi Geniusness and soon after I shall commence contributing to the Fudging of Magic or is that the Magic of Fudging. The new...
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Roland Thibault
rodantiger@...
Dec 18, 1998 10:37 pm
For a Magic file, just write more records, magic will keep adding to the file until you delete the file. If your asking about an ASCII file, the I/O table has...
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Thomas Martin
tmartin@...
Dec 18, 1998 11:15 pm
... This is a really slick idea, but it is the kind of thing that can really "Bite" you in the future -- when MSE decides to get rid of an undocumented ...
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Thomas Martin
tmartin@...
Dec 18, 1998 11:30 pm
... Well, Ian, you did something special -- you made me stop and think for a minute! When you are at the "dot" prompt in Xbase, you are sitting at an ...
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Thomas Martin
tmartin@...
Dec 18, 1998 11:35 pm
... And then as soon as I hit the send button, it becomes clear that I TOTALLY MISREAD your question -- I think! Are you asking about adding blank records? Tom...
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Ira Gershenhorn
iragershenhorn@xxx.xxxx
Dec 19, 1998 12:58 pm
The Dutch members of this group are unlikely to be able to correctly pronounce the 'dg' in Fudge. It will come out a bit harder, but perhaps, that is your...
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Gijs van Ballegooijen
gvb@xxxxx.xxx
Dec 19, 1998 1:20 pm
... Why would anybody have a GUI window on a server. Gijs van Ballegooijen SPB Software bv....
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Gijs van Ballegooijen
gvb@xxxxx.xxx
Dec 19, 1998 1:18 pm
Hi all, We have reported a performance problem to magic support that they can't reproduce. Maybe one of you has the same effects as we. If we range using the...
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Ian Whybrow
sales@xxxxxxx.xxx
Dec 19, 1998 4:36 pm
Sorry -- need to clarify. I want to locate records in one table (in this case the Memory table I have just been creating in) and append them to another...
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Geoff Greig
geoffg@...
Dec 20, 1998 2:31 am
Ian, A Create task Or am I not understaining your request Geoff Greig No 1 Software Protection Hatr Currently in Melbourne Australia...
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Geoff Greig
geoffg@...
Dec 20, 1998 2:04 am
Sherman, You are not the only one concerned about the reliability of Magic and Btrieve. It seems with all the releases and patches to both Magic and Btrieve...
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Geoff Greig
geoffg@...
Dec 20, 1998 1:02 am
Michael, Perhaps the reason that the 4096 records are read before returning the error condition is because of the Cashe size. Have you tried changing this? As...
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Geoff Greig
geoffg@...
Dec 20, 1998 3:00 am
Ian, Ah, So you are asking the same thing I asked some time ago. How to copy records. And you are saying it is not very RAD in Magic compared to XBase, or for...
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Norbert Gutscher/NGS
dngs@xxx.xxxx
Dec 20, 1998 9:52 am
Hello Geoff, we tested a methode like this, but it is very slow and sometimes produces GPFs (version 6.0a). Therefore we went back to the init methode. Regards...
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Micha Weiss
msmicha@xxxx.xxxx.xx....
Dec 20, 1998 2:21 pm
Hi you can use a batch that perform "set > tempfile" then scan the tempfile file via magic application init batch program and write the environment variable...
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MichaelStewart@xxxx.xxx
Dec 20, 1998 7:30 pm
Geoff, I have duplicated this behavior in a clean application with just 1 program and 1 table (I even tried a clean installation of Magic). The program ...
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Rob Berkers
rberkers@xxxxxx.xxx
Dec 20, 1998 10:52 pm
Hi Group, What can be the reasons for a Fatal error 2? In our Magic-applications we get every now and then an error 2. When I check the files that are used by...
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Rob Berkers
rberkers@xxxxxx.xxx
Dec 20, 1998 11:01 pm
Hi group, Recently we did upgrade Btrieve 6.10 on our Novell-filerserver to Pervasive.SQL. Our Magic 5.60c applications is running most of the time really...
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MichaelStewart@xxxx.xxx
Dec 20, 1998 11:38 pm
Rob, Are you receiving any error messages on your server's console? Specifically any type of SPX errors. Michael Stewart Director, Applications Development ...
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slevine@xx.xxxxxx.xxx
Dec 21, 1998 1:42 am
Rob, To my knowledge, the error 46 problem is limited to version 5 files. When Pervasive wrote btrieve 7, they somehow interpreted magic's "Read only" file...
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slevine@xx.xxxxxx.xxx
Dec 21, 1998 1:42 am
Rob, It's quite possible that you have a "turbo fat" error which results from an incompatibility between novell 4.1x and btrieve 6.1 I'll send the patch...