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Subject: Re: Rebel9 does not have the feature for deleting database files!

Author: Ernst Walet

Date: 01:05:58 03/23/98

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On March 22, 1998 at 23:33:06, Eran wrote:

>On March 22, 1998 at 21:16:17, Kim Hvarre wrote:
>
>>On March 22, 1998 at 18:40:34, Eran wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>How can I *safely* delete any database file from c:\rebel9\games?
>>>
>>>Thank you,
>>>Eran
>>
>>The easy way is to locate the db-name in e.g. a DOS-box, then del
>>name.*, this way You get rid of the various name.?ix (something ;-)
>>files.
>>
>>regards,
>>kim
>
>Kim,
>
>Thank you for your help, but I may have one small problem. I remember
>some time ago that I once deleted one Rebel database, for example
>topbase.* files, from c:\rebel9\games inside my Windows 95's explorer.
>After deleted, I ran Rebel9 in ms-dos mode. Upon entering the database
>screen to load another database, I was suprised to see that the same
>database named topbase still was there in the database loading screen!
>Why was it still there after I already delete that database before?! and
>how can I fix or remove it please? Well, the Rebel9 database is somewhat
>confusing - I am not sure about that. :P
>
>Thank you again,
>Eran

First select another database as default, and then delete the database,
else Rebel will make an empty database with that name.  Ernst-Jan.



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