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- Notice to Previous Users of bBaseII
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-
- The version of bBaseII which was distributed on Fish Disk 491 defaulted the
- maximum number of records at 99, and allowed the number to be changed from
- within the program. I discovered that changing the number left the program
- very vulnerable to a crash, if the requested memory was not available.
- I also discovered that this approach did not really save much memory
- when set for the 99 records as opposed to a higher number. Therefore, this
- version is hard-coded to a maximum of 600 records, which I thought to be a
- safe, yet adequate number.
-
- Any databases created using the previous version will not display properly
- when loaded into this version, due to the above-noted change. This may be
- easily rectified, however, with the use of a text editor. The procedure
- is as follows:
-
- 1. Load the previously created ".bbase" file into the text editor.
-
- 2. The first line of the file will be a number, corresponding to the
- number of Fields in each Record, ie. "9". (Without the quotation marks).
- The next lines are the Titles of each Field.
- In this example, they would occupy the next 9 lines.
-
- 3. The next line will show 2 numbers, ie. "50,99".
- These numbers represent the number of records in the database, and the
- maximum allowable number of records, the default being 99.
-
- Simply delete the comma and the second number. IE. with the cursor
- sitting to the right of "99", just backspace 3 times, leaving the first
- number alone on that line.
-
- That's all there is to it - the database will now be read properly with the
- current version of bBaseII.
-
-
- Improvements to this version (Version 5) include:
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- - Ability to use cursor keys to move up and down through the Fields.
-
- - CLI users can specify a database filename on the command line.
-
- - 'Save Disabled' option to optionally lock out saves to disk.
- This may also be specified on the command line.
-
- - Review entire database, or optionally selected records, a screenful
- at a time.
-
- - Much faster sorting and deleting.
-
- - A 'progress' bar.
-
- - More readable colors.
-
- - Some bug fixes.
-
- - MUCH more. See REVISION HISTORY in the docs for a more complete list.
-
-
- Bob.
-