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Rainbow EchoMail Digest					    Dec 26, 1990

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Date:     12-24-90 (04:24)
To:       FRANK MALLORY 
Subject:  FILE LIST NEEDED 
From:     NOLAN LEE 

Lotus 123 works fine on the hard drive with no floppie disks in the
machine. But when I copy the files to the floppies, it crashes.
how many hidden files are on the lotus sys disk?
I guess that I could just backup all of the lotus files on the hd but
I'm worried that I may miss a hidden file or two and then if I
need to replace the data on the hd, it won't work.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, Nolan
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 * Origin: NorthLake DATA EXCHANGE * Folsom * LA * 506-796-5860 (1:390/3)
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Date:     12-24-D90 (09:17)
To:       DAVID MAROUN 
Subject:  DBASE 
From:     FRANK MALLORY 

 DM>  > BTW, to add to Ed Esber's problems, Ashton-Tate's copyright
 DM>  > for dBase has  just been disallowed. This means that anyone
 DM>  > not subject to the license  agreement is free to copy it
 DM>  > with impunity.
 DM>  >
 DM> Which version(s) of dBASE?  II? III? III Plus? IV? for Rainbows only? 
 DM> or what? 

The copyright was overturned on the basis that dBase II was derived
from a  Government program (Vulcan). I *assume* but don't know,
that A-T would have to  show that at some point they abandoned
all the public contribution and came up  with a completely new
product, in order to substantiate the copyright.
 

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 * Origin: Silver Bullet - Silver Spring, Md. - 301-622-2247 (1:109/417)
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Date:     12-24-D90 (14:42)
To:       NOLAN LEE 
Subject:  FILE LIST NEEDED 
From:     FRANK MALLORY 

 NL> Lotus 123 works fine on the hard drive with no floppie disks in the 
 NL> machine. But when I copy the files to the floppies, it crashes. how 
 NL> many hidden files are on the lotus sys disk?
 NL> I guess that I could just backup all of the lotus files on the hd but 
 NL> I'm worried that I may miss a hidden file or two and then if I need to 
 NL> replace the data on the hd, it won't work.
 NL> Any advice would be greatly appreciated, Nolan

It shouldn't crash; this may indicate that you have copied it wrong. I
seldom  use Lotus, but I seem to recall that if the protection
isn't correct, you will  either get a message when you start up
and/or certain of the functions won't  work (e.g., printing and saving).

There's a program called DISK, available here as DISK31.ZIP, that lets
you see  all files (incl. hidden ones) in a directory and
change the attributes so they  are unhidden and can be copied.
 

- --- msged 1.99L MSC
 * Origin: Silver Bullet - Silver Spring, Md. - 301-622-2247 (1:109/417)
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