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- From: sledford@iglou.iglou.com (Steve L. Edford)
- Subject: Re: SBasePro4 and Importing Fields?
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- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 10:39:52 GMT
-
- mbanet@netcom.com (David Waters) writes:
-
- >Does anyone know of a way to build a long list of fields from smaller
- >files of generic fields?
-
- There is a little trick you could do to accomplish this. Whether it works
- or not *may* depend on the number of fields involved. It would be safer
- to do it on the RAM: disk. Just copy the .sbf, .sbd & index files to
- RAM:, remove/export all records and remove all but the first index, then
- close the file. Now you can load the *.sbd file into your favorite text
- editor and use cut & paste or insert the other *.sbd files you want to
- merge into your original *.sbd file. Save this *.sbd file, then you can
- open it back up with SBase and recreate the indexes again. If you had any
- original records in the other databases, you can go through a series of
- imports to put it all back together. First, open only the fields that
- were in the first DB and import the records from that DB. Second, open
- only the fields from the second DB and import the records from the 2nd
- DB. Continue like this through all the DBs that are being combined.
-
- This may sound more like a hack than a solution (these 2 are sometimes
- the same). :-) It's worked for me many times. If this wasn't very clear,
- send me an e-mail and I can go through it step-by-step. You might also
- benefit from knowing about the Superbase mailing list I recently started.
- If you're interested, just send a message to:
-
- list-server@pylon.pillar.com with the BODY of the message:
-
- JOIN SUPERBASE your@email.address
-
- afterward, to post messages, send them to superbase@pylon.pillar.com.
- You should get an information message when you subscribe.
-
-
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- Steve Edford
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