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- IMPORTANT
-
- To use the printer funtions ZEUS must be installed on drive C:\zeus or
- nothing will print.
-
- Put c:\zeus in your PATH statement in your Autoexec.bat and you can use Zeus
- anywhere.
-
- For best performance, create a RAM drive and copy Zeus.exe there - the speed
- increase is phenomenal. NOTE only copy ZEUS.exe to the ram drive, leave all
- the rest in c:\zeus.
-
- Known Bugettes
-
- The clock at the bottom of the screen only works properly if you install a
- mouse.
-
- The DBU will not append files from NTX to CDX formats or vice versa.
-
- The screen designer will not work for CDX files with memo fields.
-
-
- COVERTING FILES FROM NTX TO CDX
-
- This ONLY needs to be done if the NTX file contains a memo field. If no
- memos exist the CDX driver will read the NTX file without modification.
-
- Write a program as follows
-
- USE myfile new via 'DBFNTX' //old file
-
- copy to newfile via 'DBFCDX'
-
- close all
- return
- //done
-
- MEMORY PROBS WITH CDX
-
- Someone (at a Clipper conference) stated he either got memory problems with
- the CDX driver or slow performance. The problem is that the CDX driver uses
- lots of base memory if linked into the root of the application, yet if it is
- overlayed in FULL it is slow. For people with Blinker (a registered
- copyright of Blink Inc) I have developed CDX link file that allows
- overlaying of most of the CDX driver yet with a minimum of performance hit.
-
- This link file was uesed to create ZEUS and it works well, making Zeus have
- a load size of only 256K.
-
- Another tip is to eliminate the NTX driver from the link.
-
- On registering, you will receive the link file and an .OBJ that will
- eliminate the NTX driver and vastly reduce menory probelms. If you don't
- have Blinker you ought to rush out and get it!!
-
- HELP
-
- Help (F1) is not currently available for the Data Base Utility.
-
- CRASHES
-
- The COMPILE / LINK / RUN & PRINT options all involve shelling out to DOS.
- This can cause conflicts with memory managers. However, your file is saved
- prior to using these functions, so you wont lose your data if you bug
- out.
-
- RUN TIME REQUIREMENTS
-
- Zeus MKII has been linked via a DOS extender and base meory is not
- important. However, extended memory is important and 2 megs or more is
- required to run Zeus.
-