Re: Trading databases?

David M. Elins (delins@xionics.com)
Wed, 31 Jul 1996 12:07:25 -0400

Wesley H. Jan wrote:
>
> 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.

I just tried this; it is absolutely true (great tip).

David

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