Cougar Mountain Software Support Productivity Tools
For Cougar Mountain Software Support's
Professional Version (V2012, V2011, V2010, V2009, V12-V6)

 

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FILEFIX.EXE

Version 4.5  for the Reporting to the MAX ships with a new utility that augments the file repair capability of FILEFIX.EXE. FILEFIX.EXE works very well for finding duplicate records in a data file IF there are no corrupted records in the data file">

Cougar Mountain Software Support Productivity Tools
For Cougar Mountain Software Support's
Professional Version (V2012, V2011, V2010, V2009, V12-V6)

 

CMS TECH TIP
FILEFIX.EXE

Version 4.5  for the Reporting to the MAX ships with a new utility that augments the file repair capability of FILEFIX.EXE. FILEFIX.EXE works very well for finding duplicate records in a data file IF there are no corrupted records in the data file, the header record is undamaged, and the index file is intact. If the header record is corrupt, FILEFIX.EXE (or UTICMS.EXE) is unable to open the file.

Another problem arises with FILEFIX.EXE if the index file is damaged or missing. The header record of each Dbase data file contains a flag, which indicates if the file is an indexed file. FILEFIX.EXE looks at the flag and if the flag is checked (on), it tries to open the index (.mdx) file. If the index file is missing or damaged, FILEFIX.EXE behaves unpredictably or fails completely.

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