Category : Databases and related files
Archive : DATAMAGE.ZIP
Filename : RENMRECD.HLP
Output of file : RENMRECD.HLP contained in archive : DATAMAGE.ZIP
"This function changes the user-assigned record number of the record"
"whose number was flashing on the browse screen. You enter a new num-"
"ber and the program refers to that record by the new number."
"Re-numbering a record may not be a good idea in files with no user-"
"assigned indexes; others may depend on the old number to find that"
"record and, if you change it, the record may be lost."
"In name-address files where the u/a record number is used to connote"
"the proper alphabetic position of the record the numbers may change"
"constantly. Such a file would have other indexes to identify records."
Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!
This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.
But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/