dBASE IV xx71 ReadMe |
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| Home | * * * IMPORTANT NOTE * * * Unless you have the serial number from your installation disks for dBASE IV, version 1.5, build xx67, xx69, or xx71, this file will not work. This download will not work unless you already have a licensed copy of dBASE IV, version 1.5. Specifically, this is a maintenance release that solves the "fast machine" bug present in build xx67 and xx69 of dBASE IV. This download is copyright, Inprise/Borland. It is not released to the public domain. It is not shareware, or freeware. Note that the DOS versions of dBASE (any version) are no longer supported by Borland/Inprise, nor by dBASE, Inc. Your use of this maintenance release is done at your own risk. If you have questions, or problems, you may be able to obtain help through the peer support available in the dBASE, Inc. news groups at news://news.dbase.com. Please post questions relating to the DOS versions of dBASE in the dbase.dos group. If you have questions about how to connect to those news groups, see http://www.dbase.com/newsgrps.htm. This download is made available with permission from Inprise/Borland. You may not make this file available to others without specific permission from the copyright holder. 1) What is in this archive and what is required to install it.This is the dBASE IV 1.5 disk set. This version of dBASE includes a fix that will allow it to work on faster processors than earlier builds of dBASE IV 1.5. Those earlier builds would not reindex tables properly on fast machines. Re-indexing could lead to the error “File is already open.” That is fixed in this version. The files contained in this archive will install dBASE IV 1.5 build number xx71. You must already have dBASE IV 1.5 build number xx67 or build number xx69 in order to install this version. It is not sufficient to have dBASE IV 1.0 or 1.1 in order to install this version. You must have the serial number from the original floppies you used when you installed dBASE IV 1.5, in order to install this version of dBASE. To check your build number, launch dBASE and at the dot prompt type ? VERSION(1) The response will include one of the three build numbers, xx67, xx69 or xx71. 2) How to download this archive and prepare a set of installation diskettes from it.Download either the WinZip self-extracting archive dBIVxx71.EXE from Unzip this file with the PKZIP -d argument (PKUNZIP -d dbivxx71.zip) to ensure that the directory structure is preserved. This will create a copy of this readme file, a file called FILELIST.TXT and five subdirectories containing the install files. The file list shows what should be on the five floppy diskettes you will create for the install files. 3) How to prepare a set of five floppy diskettes to hold the install files.To install dBASE, you must create a set of five installation diskettes. The following process will erase any information on any of the diskettes, so make sure either the diskettes are empty, or they contain only unwanted files. Write “Install Disk” on a label and stick it on the first diskette. Put the diskette in the floppy drive. It must be given a particular volume name, and be formatted to a particular size. If the floppy is not the “a” drive, substitute the proper drive letter for a: in the instructions that follow. Type format a: /v:124000AS071 /f:720 Editorial Note: Some versions of Windows will refuse, even in Windows Explorer, to format a 1.44 Mb disk for 720 K. You may overcome this problem by placing a piece of tape over the hole in the disk that the operating system uses to determine the disk capacity. There are two holes in a 1.44 Mb disk. One of them has a small sliding piece of plastic that can be used to cover the hole. That hole is the write-protect hole. The other hole has no such slider and is used to determine disk capacity. Place a piece of tape over that hole and you should be able to format it to 720 K. This will format the diskette and give it a volume name of 124000AS071, and a capacity of 720 K. Note that versions of DOS on some windows machines may refuse to format a disk for 720 K. The error in that case will be “Invalid media or Track 0 bad - disk unusable.” In that case, use windows explorer to format the disk for 720 K, and with the proper volume name. Label the next diskette “System Disk 1.” Put it in the drive and type format a: /v:124001AB071 /f:720 Label the next diskette “System Disk 2.” Put it in the drive and type format a: /v:124002AB071 /f:720 Label the fourth diskette “System Disk 3.” Insert that diskette and type format a: /v:124003AB071 /f:720 Label the last diskette “Sample Programs.” Put that in the drive and type format a: /v:124010AB071 /f:720 You should now have the following five newly-formatted floppy diskettes, with the following labels and volume names:
4) Copying the install files to the floppy diskettes.From the DOS prompt, change directories to be in the temporary directory you created in step 2), above. Change directories from here into the dbaseiv subdirectory. Put the disk labeled “Install Disk” in the floppy drive. Type xcopy /h disk1of5\*.* a: This will copy all of the files from the directory disk1of5 to the floppy, including one hidden file. Insert the floppy labeled “System Disk 1” and type xcopy /h disk2of5\*.* a: Insert the floppy labeled “System Disk 2” and type xcopy /h disk3of5\*.* a: Insert the floppy labeled “System Disk 3” and type xcopy /h disk4of5\*.* a: Insert the floppy labeled “Sample Programs” and type xcopy /h disk5of5\*.* a: The floppies should now contain the files listed in the file FILELIST.TXT. Note that the first four diskettes should contain one hidden file each, and the fifth should contain two hidden files. To get a file listing of all the files on one of these floppies, type dir /a:-d a: 5) Installing dBASE from the floppy diskettes.Insert the floppy labeled “Install Disk.” Change directories to the floppy drive and type install The install program will prompt you for any information required. When it asks for a serial number, enter the serial number you were issued with your original copy of dBASE IV 1.5. This will install dBASE IV 1.5 build number xx71. After the installation is complete, you can test for the build number by following the directions for doing so, above. |