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CONTENTS
About This Manual
Who Should Read This Manual
Organization
Notational Conventions
Icons
Typography
Associated Documents
Registering Your Product
Where to Get Help
Telephone Technical Support
International Technical Support
Education and Training
Product Information
Professional Developers' Program
CompuServe Forum
Contacting Novell
1 Introduction to Btrieve
Client-Server Design
Btrieve Features
Index Maintenance
File Specifications
Memory Management
Data Integrity
Security Controls
Btrieve Enhancements
Btrieve v6.1 Enhancements
Support for Operating on a Portion of a Record: Chunks
New Operations to Support Records Larger than 64 KB
New File Structure to Support Very Long Records
Multiple Alternate Collating Sequences
Locale-Sensitive Collating Sequences
Index Balancing
Performing Reads While Creating an Index
New Data Type
Percentage Operations
No Currency Change
New Ability to Specify Repeating- or Linked-Duplicatable Keys
on Create Operations
Improved Btrieve Requesters
Btrieve v6.x Enhancements
New File Format
Online Backups
Shadow Paging
New Caching Algorithm
Better Usage of Large Data Files
Up to 119 Key Segments
Adding and Dropping Any Index
Specific Key Numbers Allowed When Creating a File or Index
Optional Renumbering of Keys
Enhanced Support for Case-Insensitive KEys
Enhancement to autoincrement Key
Reserved Space for Duplicate Pointers
Key-Only File Modification
New Stat Option
Locking in Extended Operations
Support for Referential Integrity
2 Btrieve Architecture
Components of Btrieve
Server-Based Record Manager
Communications Programs
Btrieve Message Router
BSPXCOM
BSPXSTUB and RSPXSTUB
Workstation Requesters
Btrieve Utilities
Btrieve Applications on a Server
Server Application Accessing Local Data
Server Application Accessing Remote Data
Btrieve Applications on a Workstation
Workstation Application Accessing Local Data
Workstation Application Accessing Remote Data
Workstation Application Accessing Local and Remote Data
Examples of Btrieve Architecture
Server Application Using the Btrieve NLM
Server Application Using the Btrieve Message Router
Server Application Using the Btrieve Message Router and BSPXCOM
Workstation Application Using the Requester and Client-Based Btrieve
Server Application Using RSPXSTUB
Server Application Using BSPXSTUB
Server Application Using NetWare SQL
3 Installing and Configuring Btrieve
Installing Btrieve
System Requirements
Using the NetWare INSTALL Utility
Configuring Btrieve
Configuration Options
Number of Open Files
Number of Handles
Number of Locks
Number of Transactions
Largest Compressed Record Size
Largest Record Size
Largest Page Size
Number of Remote Sessions
Cache Allocation
Perform Index Balancing
Logging of Selected Files
Create Btrieve Files in Pre v6.x Format
Create Files as Transactional
Configure BSTART.NCF to Load BROUTER
Running the Setup Utility
Starting and Stopping Btrieve
Checking for Extraneous Pre-Image Files
Unloading the Earlier Version of Btrieve
Starting Btrieve v6.x
Stopping Btrieve v6.x
Rebuilding Existing Btrieve Files
Running the Rebuild Utility Interactively
Configuring the Rebuild Utility
Executing the Rebuild Utility
Checking the Rebuild Log File
Running the Rebuild Utility from the Command Line
Deleting Temporary Files
Using Btrieve with NetWare Runtime
Reasons to Use NetWare Runtime
Installing NetWare Runtime
Special Notes on NetWare Runtime
Special Notes on Btrieve
4 Configuring and Using the Requesters
DOS Requester
DOS Requester Configuration Options
NetWare Runtime Server Support (/C)
Data Message Length (/D)
DOS Session Load (/L)
Real-Time Data Compression (/O)
Help (/?)
Loading the DOS Requester
Unloading the DOS Requester
OS/2 Requester
OS/2 Requester Configuration Options
NetWare Runtime Server Support (/C)
Data Message Length (/D)
Number of Servers (/S)
Configuring the OS/2 Requester
Loading the OS/2 Requester
Unloading the OS/2 Requester
Windows Requester
Windows Requester Configuration Options
Loading the Windows Requester
Unloading the Windows Requester
5 Using Btrieve Utilities
Btrieve Monitor Utility
System Requirements
Starting the Monitor Utility
Monitoring Btrieve Files with the Active Resources Option
Listing Active Files
Displaying Additional Information About an Active File
Listing Users Accessing a File
Monitoring Btrieve Users with the User Information Option
Listing All Users
Listing Files Accessed by a User
Deleting User Connections
Monitoring Resources with the Resource Usage Option
Monitoring SPX Activity with the Communication Statistics Option
Btrieve Maintenance Utility
Utility Overview
Command Format
Concepts
Command Files
Maintenance Utility Commands
CLONE
CLROWNER
COPY
CREATE
DROP
ENDBU
INDEX
LOAD
RECOVER
SALVAGE
SAVE
SETOWNER
SINDEX
STARTBU
STAT
VER
Roll Forward Utility
Setting Up Files for Logging
Activating the Btrieve Logging Option
Creating the Log Configuration File
Backing Up Data Files
Running the Roll Forward Utility in a DOS Environment
Running the Roll Forward Utility in an OS/2 or Windows Environment
Using the Roll Forward Pulldown Menus
Setting Options for the Roll Forward Utility
Placing Items in the Queue
Rolling Forward Items in the Queue
A Description Files
Rules for Description Files
Description File Example
Description File Elements
B Status Codes and Messages
Status Codes
Messages
Glossary
Index