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From: regoli@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (michael regoli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: dBase III+ (was dBSAE Fat Kil (was Re: corrupt FATs?))
Message-ID: <1218@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 88 21:52:27 GMT
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Reply-To: regoli@silver.UUCP (michael regoli)
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In article <vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> (Cliff Joslyn) writes:
-In article <bill@wsccs.UUCP> (Bill Housley) writes:
->Once I did the famous DBaseIII-editor-file to big-fry
->your fat-#@$^&*#$  mistake and spent 4 hours finding a disk utility that
->would help me re-construct it.  
-
-Uh, could you *please* tell us what this was again?

yes, please elaborate on this problem!  how does it happen?  

and, while on the subject of dbase, can someone tell me about the
maximum record size for a .dbf file?   i heard after 2,500 records,
an indexed database file it begins to act flaky...

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michael regoli
regoli@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
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