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- From: wesleyl@borland.com (Wesley Leung)
- Subject: Re: Mismatched dBase IV Memo fields
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.225407.22163@borland.com>
- Originator: wesleyl@genghis.borland.com
- Sender: news@borland.com (News Admin)
- Organization: Borland International
- References: <1992Nov11.175633.18877@mlb.semi.harris.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:54:07 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- >Has anybody experienced a problem with dBase IV that looks like
- >the memo field for a record has been lost and another is in its
- >place. It is like the Block Pointer Value is pointing to the
- >wrong Block in the .dbt file.
-
- >I have had this problem a couple of times in two different programs.
- >I have reindexed and packed, not much else to do, the data in question
- >to no avail.
-
- >Is there a utility that is available that can fix this type of problem.
-
- There is a utility that may help recover and fix some of your memo fields.
- The utility is called DBTCHECK and is located on the Borland Download
- Machine. (408)439-9060 (8N1) There are also other utilities there like
- DBTCNVT and DBFCLEAN which will change your memo block size to save disk
- space and the other will clean the .DBF of extraneous characters and
- corrupted headers. There are also corresponding unix executables incase
- you are running the unix versions.
-
- Wes,
- --
- Wes,
-