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- From: rkng@rd.hydro.on.ca (Ron Ng)
- Subject: Re: Paradox: table and index with different sort orders
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.144327.20234@rd.hydro.on.ca>
- Organization: "Ontario Hydro - Research Division"
- References: <1993Jan22.220157.181@chmeds.ac.nz>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 14:43:27 GMT
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- gordon@chmeds.ac.nz writes:
- : One of our users has many tables which he cannot access because of a common
- : error: "table and index have different sort orders". This is probably because
- : the files have been moved between different PCs with differently configured
- : Paradox setups.
- :
- : Is there an easy way to fix this problem? The only suggestions I have so far
- : involve reentering many sets of data manually. That has been described as
- : character-building.
- :
- This problem was caused by two different PARADOX.SOR (or PDOXRUN.SOR if
- you are using the runtime version) files residing in the two machines.
- I recommend you to ask the user to remove the current PARADOX.SOR file
- (or renaming it) and copy one of ASCII.SOR, INTL.SOR, NORDAN4.SOR,
- NORDAN.SOR and SWEDFIN.SOR as PARADOX.SOR depending on which sort order
- were used when installing Paradox in the machine where the tables are
- copied from.
-
- Ron.K.Ng@hydro.on.ca
-
-