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Re: Looking for DBCOPY (or SELCOPY?) from old swap tape
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Jeff Woods <[log in to unmask]>
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Jeff Woods <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 31 Jul 2001 18:37:08 -0600
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At  06:04 PM 7/31/01, Stan Sieler wrote:
>I have a friend who wants to do the equivalent of "DBUNLOAD" to a disk
>file, and thought that DBCOPY (or SELCOPY?) might do the trick...and he
>wants to run it on a Classic HP 3000.

If he has Dictionary/3000 (as opposed to the newer, but deprecated
SystemDictionary) he should have DICTDBU and DICTDBL in PUB.SYS and IIRC
they can unload and reload an Image database to disc.  They also have the
advantage that they allow certain changes to the database structure when
reloading.

Another possibility is to use DBUNLOAD (or simply QUERY's "FIND ALL" and
SAVE commands) to dump each of the detail and manual master sets to flat
files and use DBLOAD to reload them individually.  If he has SUPRTOOL I'd
expect him to be able to dump and load them even quicker.

-- Jeff Woods
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