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- CONTENTS
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- About This Manual
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- Who Should Read This Manual
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- Organization
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- Notational Conventions
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- Icons
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- Typography
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- Associated Documents
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- Registering Your Product
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- Where to Get Help
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- Telephone Technical Support
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- International Technical Support
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- Education and Training
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- Product Information
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- Professional Developers' Program
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- CompuServe Forum
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- Contacting Novell
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- 1 Introduction to Btrieve
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- Client-Server Design
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- Btrieve Features
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- Index Maintenance
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- File Specifications
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- Memory Management
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- Data Integrity
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- Security Controls
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- Btrieve Enhancements
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- Btrieve v6.1 Enhancements
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- Support for Operating on a Portion of a Record: Chunks
- New Operations to Support Records Larger than 64 KB
- New File Structure to Support Very Long Records
- Multiple Alternate Collating Sequences
- Locale-Sensitive Collating Sequences
- Index Balancing
- Performing Reads While Creating an Index
- New Data Type
- Percentage Operations
- No Currency Change
- New Ability to Specify Repeating- or Linked-Duplicatable Keys
- on Create Operations
- Improved Btrieve Requesters
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- Btrieve v6.x Enhancements
- New File Format
- Online Backups
- Shadow Paging
- New Caching Algorithm
- Better Usage of Large Data Files
- Up to 119 Key Segments
- Adding and Dropping Any Index
- Specific Key Numbers Allowed When Creating a File or Index
- Optional Renumbering of Keys
- Enhanced Support for Case-Insensitive KEys
- Enhancement to autoincrement Key
- Reserved Space for Duplicate Pointers
- Key-Only File Modification
- New Stat Option
- Locking in Extended Operations
- Support for Referential Integrity
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- 2 Btrieve Architecture
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- Components of Btrieve
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- Server-Based Record Manager
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- Communications Programs
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- Btrieve Message Router
- BSPXCOM
- BSPXSTUB and RSPXSTUB
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- Workstation Requesters
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- Btrieve Utilities
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- Btrieve Applications on a Server
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- Server Application Accessing Local Data
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- Server Application Accessing Remote Data
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- Btrieve Applications on a Workstation
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- Workstation Application Accessing Local Data
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- Workstation Application Accessing Remote Data
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- Workstation Application Accessing Local and Remote Data
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- Examples of Btrieve Architecture
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- Server Application Using the Btrieve NLM
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- Server Application Using the Btrieve Message Router
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- Server Application Using the Btrieve Message Router and BSPXCOM
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- Workstation Application Using the Requester and Client-Based Btrieve
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- Server Application Using RSPXSTUB
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- Server Application Using BSPXSTUB
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- Server Application Using NetWare SQL
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- 3 Installing and Configuring Btrieve
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- Installing Btrieve
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- System Requirements
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- Using the NetWare INSTALL Utility
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- Configuring Btrieve
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- Configuration Options
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- Number of Open Files
- Number of Handles
- Number of Locks
- Number of Transactions
- Largest Compressed Record Size
- Largest Record Size
- Largest Page Size
- Number of Remote Sessions
- Cache Allocation
- Perform Index Balancing
- Logging of Selected Files
- Create Btrieve Files in Pre v6.x Format
- Create Files as Transactional
- Configure BSTART.NCF to Load BROUTER
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- Running the Setup Utility
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- Starting and Stopping Btrieve
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- Checking for Extraneous Pre-Image Files
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- Unloading the Earlier Version of Btrieve
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- Starting Btrieve v6.x
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- Stopping Btrieve v6.x
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- Rebuilding Existing Btrieve Files
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- Running the Rebuild Utility Interactively
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- Configuring the Rebuild Utility
- Executing the Rebuild Utility
- Checking the Rebuild Log File
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- Running the Rebuild Utility from the Command Line
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- Deleting Temporary Files
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- Using Btrieve with NetWare Runtime
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- Reasons to Use NetWare Runtime
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- Installing NetWare Runtime
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- Special Notes on NetWare Runtime
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- Special Notes on Btrieve
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- 4 Configuring and Using the Requesters
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- DOS Requester
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- DOS Requester Configuration Options
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- NetWare Runtime Server Support (/C)
- Data Message Length (/D)
- DOS Session Load (/L)
- Real-Time Data Compression (/O)
- Help (/?)
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- Loading the DOS Requester
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- Unloading the DOS Requester
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- OS/2 Requester
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- OS/2 Requester Configuration Options
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- NetWare Runtime Server Support (/C)
- Data Message Length (/D)
- Number of Servers (/S)
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- Configuring the OS/2 Requester
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- Loading the OS/2 Requester
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- Unloading the OS/2 Requester
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- Windows Requester
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- Windows Requester Configuration Options
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- Loading the Windows Requester
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- Unloading the Windows Requester
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- 5 Using Btrieve Utilities
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- Btrieve Monitor Utility
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- System Requirements
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- Starting the Monitor Utility
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- Monitoring Btrieve Files with the Active Resources Option
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- Listing Active Files
- Displaying Additional Information About an Active File
- Listing Users Accessing a File
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- Monitoring Btrieve Users with the User Information Option
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- Listing All Users
- Listing Files Accessed by a User
- Deleting User Connections
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- Monitoring Resources with the Resource Usage Option
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- Monitoring SPX Activity with the Communication Statistics Option
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- Btrieve Maintenance Utility
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- Utility Overview
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- Command Format
- Concepts
- Command Files
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- Maintenance Utility Commands
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- CLONE
- CLROWNER
- COPY
- CREATE
- DROP
- ENDBU
- INDEX
- LOAD
- RECOVER
- SALVAGE
- SAVE
- SETOWNER
- SINDEX
- STARTBU
- STAT
- VER
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- Roll Forward Utility
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- Setting Up Files for Logging
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- Activating the Btrieve Logging Option
- Creating the Log Configuration File
- Backing Up Data Files
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- Running the Roll Forward Utility in a DOS Environment
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- Running the Roll Forward Utility in an OS/2 or Windows Environment
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- Using the Roll Forward Pulldown Menus
- Setting Options for the Roll Forward Utility
- Placing Items in the Queue
- Rolling Forward Items in the Queue
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- A Description Files
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- Rules for Description Files
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- Description File Example
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- Description File Elements
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- B Status Codes and Messages
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- Status Codes
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- Messages
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- Glossary
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- Index
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