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- From: uw-beaver!uw-june!entropy!dataio!pilchuck!del (Erik Lindberg)
- Subject: DBASE II and directory databases!!
- Date: 4 Aug 86 20:19:38 GMT
- Keywords: directory, cpm, maybe_dos, database
-
- This program is in response to a request from somebody that wanted to
- do diskette cataloging via DBASE II.
-
- There is no documentation contained here, except some sparce comments
- in the .cmd files. The concept is simple though, a few minutes study
- should show you whats going on. I am assuming a current version of
- DBASE II which supports the (almost) undocumented
-
- SAVE STRUCTURE EXTENDED and
- CREATE file FROM file
-
- commands. If your version of DB does not support these, you can still
- figure out what is going on and rewrite the operations. If you do have
- these capabilities, you can execute "DO MAKE.CMD" to create the
- required database descriptor files. Then "DO DIR" to see how the thing
- works. The first prompt expects the name of the database you would
- like the file names to appear in, the second prompt is the file
- template to list, which could be "*.CMD" or even "tmp?????.*". Note
- that in the seconde example "tmp*.*" will not work because DB does not
- expand it out.
-
- BEFORE you execute "make.cmd" you must store something to the memory
- variable "LIB", you can just use a blank (STORE " " TO LIB) and USE a
- valid database. Don't worry, the database you use will not be altered,
- it is only used to create the format of a database descriptor file.
-
- Let me hear if this works for you, I am interested!
-