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- From: David.Pinero@f9.n377.z1.fidonet.org (David Pinero)
- Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services
- Subject: Testing
- Message-ID: <721252273.F00073@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 11:12:00 GMT
- Sender: UUCP@remote.halcyon.com
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- George:
-
- Just a couple of lines to let you know how things are going:
-
- [1] In regards to the TRASH utility for Scan-B, I went ahead and
- created
- an "artificially" generated Scan-B datafile of 500+ records. I
- actually went as high as one thousand records to REALLY blow
- things
- out of proportion--figuring if a crash were going to occur, it
- would
- do so at this outrageous amount of records. Well, despite
- everything
- I tried, I could not get the datafile to wreck itself. Therefore
- I am going to venture ahead and remove the "TRASH" warning that
- warns against using the utility with large files. Feel free to
- use the utility with confidence once again. Just be sure to make
- back ups of your datafiles so that in case this happens again
- (however it did the first time), you won't have lost any time
- or effort. By the way, one thing that came out as a result of my
- testing is the knowledge that Scan-B will only hold 500 records.
-
- [2] I do have a higher version of Scan-B that needs to be tested. If
- you are interested, let me know via this network. The support BBS
- no longer is maintained due to technical difficulties with the
- phone system here at the University of South Florida. If you want
- to
- help out, we need to arrange a transmittal date (to your system),
- and
- some time of scheduled report. I can't pay you anything, but I'll
- barter some of your time for a registered version of the latest
- Scan-B (which will be the one you are testing). The most notable
- feature of the latest Scan-B version is the sorting time. I have
- improved it dramatically! Let me know!
-
- Thanks,
- Dave
-
-
- * Origin: Southern Systems BBS *HST-DS* Tampa, Fl (813)977-7065
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