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- TCU Database Option
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- The TCU database option to TCU version 3.2 is designed to extend the
- TCU form services by providing a means of creating databases of form
- records. Records may be quickly located, added, deleted, updated,
- etc.
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- This option installs itself into the existing TCU 3.2 installation.
- If you do not currently have TCU 3.2, this option should not be
- installed.
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- The database option contains a installation program very like that
- supplied with TCU 3.2. In order to install the database option the
- following simple steps should be taken.
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- 1. Copy all files from the distribution archive, TCU_DB.ZIP,
- into a temporary directory.
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- 2. Move into the temporary directory now containing the files
- from the archive and execute the program TCUDBINS.
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- 3. Complete the installation using the installation program.
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- 4. You may now delete the files in the temporary directory and
- the directory itself. The TCU database option will now be
- installed.
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- dBASE III+ Databases
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- A utility program is provided to convert dBASE III+ databases into
- TCU database format. Note that dBASE indices are not used, but may
- be specified new with the import program, DB3TOTCU. In order to
- perform the import, a TCU form file must be created which contains
- AT LEAST the fields from the dBASE database. The dBASE field names
- must be the same as the names given to the fields in the TCU form
- file. dBASE field names which are longer than 8 characters are
- truncated to 8 characters during the import, e.g. a dBASE field with
- the name FIRST_NAME must match a TCU form field with the name FIRST_NA.
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- When the form has been created, it should be compiled using the TCU
- forms compiler, FCOMP to a .CFO file. Execute the DB3TOTCU utility
- with the parameters:
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- db3totcu <dBASE file name> <TCU form name> <TCU DB name>
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- An example database and form is provided to go with the example
- program. To compile the form and generate the TCU database required
- by the example, perform the following:
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- \> fcomp dbform
- \> db3totcu demo_db dbform demo_db
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- You may then execute the DBDEMO example program which you must first
- compile.
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- Any questions and/or problem reports should be addressed to:
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- Karl Keyte
- TCU Users Group
- Gross-Gerauer Strasse 10
- 6108 Weiterstadt
- Germany
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- If possible, send your problem in program form on a diskette so that
- it can be examined more quickly, reliably and easily. The disk will
- be returned to you with the answer, a patch if necessary and the
- latest version of TCU (if a 1.44 MB disk is sent).
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