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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Wednesday, 2 Sep 1992 11:33:17 CDT
- From: Ron Vyhmeister <U53805@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <92246.113317U53805@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.databases,bit.listserv.dbase-l
- Subject: Re: Clipper: Backup/Restore routines for BIG files...
- References: <1992Sep1.114959.11104@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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- One methodology I have seen used is to do the following
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- 1. Find out how many free bytes there are on the floppy disk
- 2. Using the HEADER() and RECLEN() functions, figure out how many records
- can be copied to that floppy disk.
- 3. Create a .DBF with the first however many records you can fit.
- 4. Repeat step 3 as many times as needed.
-
- Hope this helps.
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