Malcolm

>But yon Tim seems to be a decent bloke and I would not wish to
>deprive him of any of his bread and butter.

That's a reasonable point. How about just we just butter them and toast until a nice golden colour?

>Would expense fiddling politicians be an acceptable alternative
>target group? I can't think of any negative impact from loosing a
>few hundred of them!

Nah! I want to think of something nasty for them. Something slow, nasty and not to costly with them ending up used as fertiliser so we at least get some use out of them.

Roy Lambert

Roy Lambert wrote:

> Malcolm
>
> > But yon Tim seems to be a decent bloke and I would not wish to
> > deprive him of any of his bread and butter.
>
> That's a reasonable point. How about just we just butter them and
> toast until a nice golden colour?
>
> > Would expense fiddling politicians be an acceptable alternative
> > target group? I can't think of any negative impact from loosing a
> > few hundred of them!
>
> Nah! I want to think of something nasty for them. Something slow,
> nasty and not to costly with them ending up used as fertiliser so
> we at least get some use out of them.
>
> Roy Lambert

I have to say I would not welcome disembowelment myself.  Now I am
all agog to discover what 'nasty' means to you!  Anyway we should not
worry about the cost - I am sure we will be overwhelmed with
volunteers and willing to pay for the privilege along with the
spectators.  Might make more money than HR in these times! <bg>

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Malcolm


Do you have a website?

Roy Lambert

Roy Lambert wrote:

> Malcolm
>
>
> Do you have a website?
>
> Roy Lambert

I was hoping you would not ask!
www.diverecorder.co.uk

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Roy,

<< Its actually this amount of effort >>

You're doing a bit too much:

1) EDB will automatically create the store directory when it accesses it the
first time, so you can remove it.

2) You don't need to use FileExists to test for backups - just query the
Backups table in the Configuration database to get a list of backups.
There's no need to mess with backup extensions, etc.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Malcolm


That's a nice site, just as long as I'm not expected to join in the activity. My contribution would go

boing (that's the board springing back to position as I leave it)
aaaaaarrrgh
thump

Roy Lambert

Tim

>You're doing a bit too much:
>
>1) EDB will automatically create the store directory when it accesses it the
>first time, so you can remove it.

OK that's 1 line of code that could go

>2) You don't need to use FileExists to test for backups - just query the
>Backups table in the Configuration database to get a list of backups.
>There's no need to mess with backup extensions, etc.

I'm going to have to give that one more thought. My initial one was "ah another table to clean up" so I tried this

delete from configuration.backups

in EDBManager and was rewarded by Access violation at address 004031F0 in module 'edbmgr.exe'. Read of address 00134000

Roy Lambert

Roy Lambert wrote:

> Malcolm
>
>
> That's a nice site, just as long as I'm not expected to join in the
> activity. My contribution would go
>
> boing (that's the board springing back to position as I leave it)
> aaaaaarrrgh
> thump
>
> Roy Lambert

Thanks Roy.

The usual version would be:
 boing..
 aarrgh..
 splat!


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Roy,

<< I'm going to have to give that one more thought. My initial one was "ah
another table to clean up" so I tried this >>

No, you don't need to do that.

<< delete from configuration.backups

in EDBManager and was rewarded by Access violation at address 004031F0 in
module 'edbmgr.exe'. Read of address 00134000 >>

Is this with B13 ?

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim

><< I'm going to have to give that one more thought. My initial one was "ah
>another table to clean up" so I tried this >>
>
>No, you don't need to do that.

So I found out - its cleaned when stores are deleted?

><< delete from configuration.backups
>
> in EDBManager and was rewarded by Access violation at address 004031F0 in
>module 'edbmgr.exe'. Read of address 00134000 >>
>
>Is this with B13 ?

Yup

Roy Lambert