Re: EDS
- Posted by Jeffrey Fielding <JJProg at CYBERBURY.NET> Mar 12, 2000
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------=_NextPart_000_0025_01BF8C17.BCE00E40 charset="iso-8859-1" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Nelson" <mike-nelson-ODAAT at WORLDNET.ATT.NET> To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 10:57 AM Subject: EDS > The attached zip contains an upgrade to EDS which provides for having > multiple databases open and choosing the current db with db_select(). > Compression is provided by db_compress(), which renames the current db to > <name>.tmp and copies each table and record to a new db with the old name. > > I don't know Linux--the system commands in db_compress() may need to be made > platform specific. I haven't updated the documentation. A test program for > compression is provided. Yes, you need to change ren to mv when on Linux. I've attached an updated version which checks the platform and uses Linux commands if necessicary. > > -- Mike Nelson > > > Jeff Fielding ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01BF8C17.BCE00E40 name="db.zip"