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Database does not exist
Oct 19th, 2004 at 7:21pm
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I finally messed up a database in 1.0.4. The files are still there but Sesame says they aren't. I suspect the problem may be in the header.  Does anyone have a hex converter I can download in order to look at these files ?
I haven't had any luck with a search on Google. Many hits but
nothing looks good.

Thanks for any assistence.
Harley
  
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Re: Database does not exist
Reply #1 - Oct 19th, 2004 at 7:27pm
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Hello Harley,

Could you send the database both the .DB and .DAT along with you log file to Support@Lantica.com

The log file will be named s_log0000.log and will be in Sesame's working directory.

The recent posts about headers had to do with doing a XLookupSourceListAll to a Q&A database which would replace the first 12 bytes of the Q&A database with junk characters.

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Reply #2 - Oct 19th, 2004 at 7:38pm
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Thanks Ray. That was a really fast response. I'll send the files shortly.

Harley
  
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Re: Database does not exist
Reply #3 - Oct 19th, 2004 at 7:52pm
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Hello Harley....

I keep looking for your quarter that you were looking for at the Users Conference.

Here is some info for hex editor for you.

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http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm

Free ware Hex file editor.

The following is an excerpt from the download page above:

Features
XVI32 has the following main features. Especially note the highlighted advantages of XVI32.

    * data inspector to view decoded numbers (see screen shot; can be turned off).
    * Has built-in script interpreter.
    * Easily works with huge files. Try to open a 60 MB sized text file with some other hex editor (not to speak about Wordpad), then use XVI32... If you don't have such a huge text file, use my freeware tool RndFile to create one
    * XVI32 allows to edit files up to 2 GB (enough virtual memory provided, of course)
    * For your convenience, XVI32 stores settings and last used search strings etc. in XVI32.INI file
    * Progress indication in percent for most operations
    * You can abort nearly all operations (reading/writing files, search, replace, print...)
    * Display of both text (ASCII/ANSI) and hexadecimal representation
    * Two synchronous cursors in text and hex area
    * Fully resizeable window (change number of rows and columns)
    * Font and font size adjustable
    * Overwrite or insert characters
    * Insert text or hex string n times
    * Switch byte offset (address) of first byte between 0 or 1 to examine also record structure of plain text files
    * Search text or hex string, e.g. find "this text" or find "0D 0A"
    * Simplified search for Unicode Latin (UTF-16) strings
    * Search optionally with joker (wildcard) char that will match any character, e.g. find "A.C" or "00 2E 2E 00" where "." = "2E" (user-defined) stands for any character
    * Fast searching algorithm (Quicksearch) for both search directions (down/up)
    * Count occurences of text or hex string
    * Replace text or hex string, e.g. replace "0D 0A" by "0A" or replace "0D 0A" by text "EOL"
    * Extremely fast "replace all" mode (if needed, additional memory is allocated beforehead, not at every single replacing operation)
    * Auto-fill feature to copy bytes from current address into input field for hex string using right arrow key
    * Character conversion using self-defined character table
    * Easy converting of text to hex string in dialogs (e.g. "abc" -> "61 62 63")
    * Decoding and encoding of 1, 2, 4, and 8 byte integers or 4/8 byte floats in 2 possible byte orders
    * Bit manipulation (view or set bits)
    * Open file in Read Only Mode (e.g. if opened by another application or to avoid unintentional modifications)
    * Insert file contents into file
    * Write block to file
    * Copy, move or delete block
    * Clipboard support
    * Goto address (absolute or relative up/down)
    * Up to 9 named bookmarks
    * Enter jump width and jump up/down (useful for files with fixed record length)
    * Patch BORLAND PASCAL 7.0 EXE files for execution on processors > 200 MHz
    * Printing with preview or print to file
    * Simplified search for Unicode Latin (UTF-16) strings
    * Wheel mouse support
    * Command "Reload" to open current file again
    * Easily access most recently used files
    * No setup programm needed, doesn't write any data to registry
    * And last, but not least: XVI32 is free!



  



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Re: Database does not exist
Reply #4 - Oct 19th, 2004 at 8:52pm
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Thanks Bob,
I have downloaded the file and will try it later.

Harley
  
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Reply #5 - Oct 20th, 2004 at 2:25am
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What in the WORLD are you guys doing with hex editors and Sesame?

Sounds like trouble!

Don't go getting yourselves hurt.... Where's a lantican when you need one?

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Reply #6 - Oct 20th, 2004 at 10:34am
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Reply #7 - Oct 20th, 2004 at 12:15pm
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What's Ray? Chopped chicken liver?



Actually Ray has done such a good job in customer care dealing with everyone nobody views him as anything other then one of us.

Deep down we really consider you and Mark part of us users also. We know there is a business burden (financial considerations over specific feature desires) associated with being a Lantican that you folks are always struggling with.

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Reply #8 - Oct 20th, 2004 at 1:41pm
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It looked as though Ray was putting out other fires. As soon as he walked away, the hex editors came out. I tried to notify my friendly neighborhood Lantican, but none could be found.

I'm just glad to see we all made it through the night until Erika arrived on the scene to keep things under control.

Smiley

Sorry, just having a bit of fun.

Steve

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