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Subject: Re: Rebel 9 database problem

Author: Chris Whittington

Date: 11:42:23 11/10/97

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On November 10, 1997 at 11:37:45, Ed Schröder wrote:

>>Posted by Kai Lübke on November 10, 1997 at 05:27:59:
>
>>I have the problem that Rebel 9 crashes whenever I try to load
>>the "topbase" database supplied on the Bonus CD.
>>This happens under Win95 (13 and 28 MB hash) as well as under pure DOS
>>(booted in safe mode, 60 MB hash).
>>Under Windows, Rebel simply exits to the desktop.
>>Under DOS, I get a "page fault at ..." message.
>
>I have no idea.
>
>It must be the way the database is opened. Any Rebel database is always
>opened with the "rb+" attribute. Perhaps your cdrom driver does not
>allow the "+" which allows writing.
>
>Any programmers here with more knowledge?
>
>For the moment I would advice you to copy the database to your hard
>disk. Perhaps it's also needed to remove the 'read only' attribute.
>Example: ATTRIB -R *.*
>
>I haven't heard of this problem before. Any data from cdrom can be
>loaded within Rebel9. Whenever Rebel9 notices a cdrom file is loaded
>the program automatically set all 'write commands' to the file OFF in
>the pulldown menus to avoid you will write to the cdrom. But loading
>a file should be no problem.

We had a similar problem when beta testing CSTal.

If you copy files off the CD in DOS, no problem. If you copy with Win95,
it maintains the read-only status on any files.

So, for example, copying the 550Mbyte book to Harddrive in order to edit
it via Windows, would leave testers complaining that the book was
un-editable.

CSTal checks for r/w status and behaves sensibly(ish) if it can't write
to such a r/o file.

Chris Whittington

>
>- Ed Schroder -
>
>
>
>>My setup:
>>P6-200, 64 MB RAM, Phoenix 4.06 BIOS, Micronics W6-LI mainboard, Matrox
>>Millennium BIOS 2.3.
>
>>Any suggestions?



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