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Article #6168Re: DataStar Help Needed
From: Morris Jones
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1986 16:42
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1986 16:42
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I made a major mistake in my previous article on DataStar help.
The problem: DataStar complains about "file not properly terminated".
The problem file is not the data file but the index file (usually).
If the index file (file.ndx) ends on an even 128 byte record boundary,
older versions of Formsort don't end the file with a ^Z. (Fixed in
InfoStar 1.6.)
However I was correct that "puteof.com" supplied with the older
DataStar will add a proper terminator to the index file. The alternative
is to do it with debug.
--
Mojo
... Morris Jones, MicroPro Product Development
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!glacier!oliveb!hplabs!qantel!ptsfa!micropro!kepler!mojo From: mojo@kepler.UUCP (Morris Jones) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: DataStar Help Needed Message-ID: <571@kepler.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Apr-86 11:42:12 EST Article-I.D.: kepler.571 Posted: Tue Apr 8 11:42:12 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Apr-86 20:32:34 EST References: <664@epistemi.UUCP> <570@kepler.UUCP> Reply-To: mojo@kepler.UUCP (Morris Jones) Organization: MicroPro Int'l Corp., San Rafael, CA Lines: 16