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