Backups

Hi

Having been inspired by Kens book on reports I have switched away from 
Crystal 8.5 to see how I get on with the dBase report writer.

Losing forms completely in development is very rare which is probably due to 
my better knowledge of the program and improvements in dBase itself.

However in the report writer I have lost so many reports that it reminded me 
of my novice days with writing forms.

It would save a heck of a lot of time if the automatic backup which only 
keeps one copy could be changed to store backups with the format 
filename.(1).rep etc. giving a range of backups to fall back on.  Probably 5 
copies would be sufficient but I would be very happy with 9

In  the meantime I am using this as a method of storing copies manually.

Brian Johnson 

Hi Brian. I submitted this as QAID 6309.

I put in a request to do this for both forms and reports.

Thanks, Kathy
QA
dBI

"Brian Johnson" <councilsoftware@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message

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> Hi
>
> Having been inspired by Kens book on reports I have switched away from 
> Crystal 8.5 to see how I get on with the dBase report writer.
>
> Losing forms completely in development is very rare which is probably due 
> to my better knowledge of the program and improvements in dBase itself.
>
> However in the report writer I have lost so many reports that it reminded 
> me of my novice days with writing forms.
>
> It would save a heck of a lot of time if the automatic backup which only 
> keeps one copy could be changed to store backups with the format 
> filename.(1).rep etc. giving a range of backups to fall back on.  Probably

> 5 copies would be sufficient but I would be very happy with 9
>
> In  the meantime I am using this as a method of storing copies manually.
>
> Brian Johnson
> 

Hi

Thanks Kathy

Brian Johnson


"kathy kolosky" <kkolosky@databi.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi Brian. I submitted this as QAID 6309.
>
> I put in a request to do this for both forms and reports.
>
> Thanks, Kathy
> QA
> dBI
>
> "Brian Johnson" <councilsoftware@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in
message 
> news:uxLdbd83HHA.1568@news-server...
>> Hi
>>
>> Having been inspired by Kens book on reports I have switched away from

>> Crystal 8.5 to see how I get on with the dBase report writer.
>>
>> Losing forms completely in development is very rare which is probably
due 
>> to my better knowledge of the program and improvements in dBase
itself.
>>
>> However in the report writer I have lost so many reports that it
reminded 
>> me of my novice days with writing forms.
>>
>> It would save a heck of a lot of time if the automatic backup which
only 
>> keeps one copy could be changed to store backups with the format 
>> filename.(1).rep etc. giving a range of backups to fall back on. 
>> Probably 5 copies would be sufficient but I would be very happy with 9
>>
>> In  the meantime I am using this as a method of storing copies
manually.
>>
>> Brian Johnson
>>
>
>