Re: Trading databases?

Wesley H. Jan (wesmd@itsa.ucsf.EDU)
Wed, 31 Jul 1996 08:53:06 -0700 (PDT)

On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, David M. Elins wrote:

> One caveat about databases. The ogo maintains a 'database of databases'
> called master.mdb. If you copy a .gdb file to the ogo but it is not in
> master.mdb, you can't get at it (at least I can't) on the ogo. Luckily,
> master.mdb is itself a file which can be manipulated by gdbio.
>
I don't know this from experience but I have been told that if you delete
master.mdb, master.mdb will automatically be reconstructed the next time
you open a database and the new .gdb file will then be recognized and
incorporated into master.mdb at that time.