Q62770: Must Load PROISAM or PROISAMD to Use ISAM Utilities

Article: Q62770
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 7.00 7.10
Operating System(s): MS-DOS
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | SR# S900509-65 | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 8-AUG-1990

As stated on Page 389 of the "Microsoft BASIC 7.0: Programmer's Guide"
for versions 7.00 and 7.10, when using the ISAM utilities ISAMIO,
ISAMCVT, or ISAMPACK, you must have the ISAM support installed.

Depending on how you ran SETUP.EXE, the ISAM utilities ISAMIO.EXE,
ISAMCVT.EXE, and ISAMPACK.EXE are built either to run as stand-alone
programs or to require the terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) form of
ISAM (PROISAMD.EXE). SETUP always installs the ISAMREPR.EXE (ISAM
repair) utility to run as a stand-alone program. For more information
about how SETUP installs the ISAM utilities, search for a separate
article in this Knowledge Base with the following words:

   how and SETUP and builds and ISAMIO

This information applies to Microsoft BASIC Professional Development
System (PDS) versions 7.00 and 7.10 for MS-DOS.

The following table describes what each of the ISAM utilities does:

   Utility Name        Use
   ------------        ---

   ISAMREPR            Repairs or rebuilds database

   ISAMCVT             Converts other ISAM file types to the ISAM
                       format used by BASIC PDS 7.00

   ISAMPACK            Rotates all deleted records to the end of the
                       ISAM file, and if a 32K section is marked for
                       deletion, it decreases the size of the data
                       file by 32K

   ISAMIO              Converts to or from simple ASCII text files and
                       ISAM files

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