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Article #6805Re: Dollars & Sense 4.x Archives - What good are they ?
From: David A Willcox
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 1991 17:41
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 1991 17:41
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In article <1470@urbana.mcd.mot.com> willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com (David A Willcox) writes: >HOWEVER, I have not switched over to using 5.0, and will not before >there is another release. The problem is that the database file grows >without bound; there is no way to recover unused space in it. In >4.1c, if your file got too big, you could archive some transactions >and then do a "Save as". The new saved file would have the unused >(archived) transactions compressed out. This isn't true in 5.0. My >database file under 5.0 was well over a megabyte, and I could see no >way to reduce it. Just to follow up - I talked to The Software Toolworks today, and they say that this won't be fixed until version 5.1. I'm supposed to call them again if I don't hear from them by early April. David A. Willcox "Just say 'NO' to universal drug testing" Motorola TSD - Urbana UUCP: ...!uiucuxc!udc!willcox 1101 E. University Ave. INET: willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com Urbana, IL 61801 FONE: 217-384-8534
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!asuvax!mcdphx!udc!willcox From: willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com (David A Willcox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Dollars & Sense 4.x Archives - What good are they ? Message-ID: <1472@urbana.mcd.mot.com> Date: 17 Jan 91 17:41:04 GMT References: <44440@mips.mips.COM> <4936@tellab5.tellabs.com> <20989@.la.locus.com> <5007@tellab5.tellabs.com> <1470@urbana.mcd.mot.com> Distribution: usa Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division, Urbana, IL Lines: 19