In message <[log in to unmask]>, 
Tim O'Neill <[log in to unmask]> writing at 17:26:00 in his/her 
local time opines:-
>I need to give a TurboImage data base to a consultant,
>but I cannot give them the proprietary data, only the structure.
>
>My idea is:
>   1. TurboStore store the data base on tape.
>   2. TurboStore restore the data base to a different volume set
>       in a different group account.
>   3. Run QUERY > FORM SETS and FORM ITEMS, for the purpose
>       of showing the number of occurrences of each item.
>   4. Run DBUTIL > ERASE on the copy, which would erase the
>       number of occurrences of each item, which is why
>       Step 3 was necessary.
>   5. Give the QUERY report and data base copy to the consultant.
>
>Questions:
>   1. Is this approach sound, i.e. will it work?
>   2. Am I doing it correctly?
>   3. Are there other ways to give them the structure and
>       number of occurrences?  Utilities I do not know about?
>       Third party methods?

If I understand you correctly, you want to give him the FO SETS and the 
FO ITEMS so he can see the data counts, plus an actual copy of the 
(emptied) database so he can't see the actual data?

Presumably he has an HP3000 he can run it on?

In which case he does only need the schema, from which he can generate 
his own empty copy, instead of the empty database copy you propose.

This will save you both getting tangled up in transfer formats - tape, 
FTP, w.h.y.

However, it he does not have access to an HP3000, the database copy 
would be of no use, and the schema only a little more..

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