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From: jgb@prism.gatech.EDU (James G. Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Help: Clipper linker information needed soon
Message-ID: <25097@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 27 Mar 91 18:50:40 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.051659.12850@colorado.edu>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <1991Mar27.051659.12850@colorado.edu> haverlan@tramp.colorado.edu (HAVERLAND MARC BRADLEY) writes:
>I need a replacement linker for Clipper Summer '87.  Clipper 5.0 is giving
>me "internal errors," (and I'm not using any 5.0 specific things, so that's
>not a problem).

I have run into the INTERNAL errors many times.  After talking to Nantucket,
they tell me that Tech Support doesn't even know what they are.  Apparently,
the should never happen to the end user.  Their usual reponse is: "While
you were indexing?  Hmmm...  Did you have a relation set?  No?  Hmmm.. Try
rebuilding the database with the new DBU."  I don't mean to get on their 
case becuase Clipper 5.0 is *huge* (I surely wouldn't want to debug it!),
but the INTERNAL errors definitely are 5.0 related.  Most often ones
have to do with INDEXes, RELATIONs, and the VMM undoubtedly.

One note I thought I would mention:  One Tech support person said the 5.0 
.dbf files are not *exactly* the same as S'87.  This can cause indexing
problems (it did for me).  Actually create the .dbf from scratch using
DBU 5.0 (don't copy from, etc).

Let me know what INTERNAL errors you get and we'll see if we can track them
down.

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