AW: Help! old version Alegro-C on Novell 3.12 with W2K client

[Gerhard Englert]

Hello Jeroen klein Gebbing,

your index is corrupt - for what reason ever. Did you try to refresch the
index.

We use a batch like:

*********
rem Varibles
set progpfad=n:\db\alg14
set -P=%progpfad%
set -D=Q:\zib
set -K=azib
set -L=zib

%progpfad%\nnansi.com

%progpfad%\index -f7 -m0 -h0
pause
rem if qrix does not start by itself, do it manually:
%progpfad%\qrix -fq -K124
rem set all flags to sharable
flag *.* sh /fo
***********

Kind regards

G.Englert




> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Maiser at buch.biblio.etc.tu-bs.de
> [mailto:Maiser at buch.biblio.etc.tu-bs.de]Im Auftrag von Thomas Berger
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. November 2002 09:59
> An: Diskussionsliste Allegro-C
> Betreff: Re: Help! old version Alegro-C on Novell 3.12 with W2K client
>
>
> Hello Jeroen klein Gebbing,
>
> ...
> >                                                     we migrated our
> > workstations to Windows 2000 while running Algero on our Novell
> 3.12 server.
> > Everything works fine exept for a problem with one of our catalogs
> ...
>
> But You had to or had not to upgrade Your version of allegro-C
> to a current one?
>
>
> > When one of our employees adds new records or even when the catalog is
> > viewed the following message is displayed:
> >
> > top of screen:  "recn=9372, worng recn=-16843009, ci=-1,
> file#=1 rad=1884357
>
> This reads: You tried to attempt record 9372 in the database,
> which according to the table <database>.tbl resides in File #1
> at position (byte offset) 1884357. But on that position
> of the .ald file nothing could be read.
>
>
> > bottom of screen: "no records under this number OR wrong
> recordnumber" (<--
> > translated in English)
> >
> > What can be the problem? The database is about 2,5 MB large and
> the volume
> > has plenty of space left for storing data.
>
> My impression is the database (some / all .ALD-files) got
> truncated when it was copied onto the server (those are
> binary files which frequently contain ASCII 26 = DOS End-of-File).
>
> The following should bring a correct display: From the record
> display enter "x", then a small window opens where you enter
> "#1" (or another small number): these records should display
> correctly up to number #something.
>
> If not even record #1 displays without error, maybe
> file <databasename>1.ald did not get copyied at all
> onto the new server or there may be a problem with
> access rights / readability.
>
> Hope this helps
> Thomas Berger