Went there for a quick mvBase answer and the whole ftp site is now "under
constuction." Anyone on the inside know when it'll be back up?

My mvbase question is this. It's been a LONG time since I did tape ops on an
mvBase system. I'm sel-restoring a file and it's asking for the dictionary
name. I'm used to entering the account name and file name. If I needed a
dict, I'd sel-restore DICT filename and it'd know what to do. Why is the
dict name necessary?

Thanks,

Ed

On Apr 20, 5:03 am, "Ed Sheehan" <NOedsS... (AT) xmission (DOT) com> wrote:
If it helps, site is now up

Ed,

Just a guess, but probably because you can sel-restore from files that have
multiple data sections, perhaps it's merely asking: Which Dict? Which File
within that Dict? Usually the answer is the same, but once in a while it's
not and the mvBase process may not like filename,subfile construct as a
reply.

What's the exact sequence of questions?

Mark Brown

"Ed Sheehan" <NOedsSPAM (AT) xmission (DOT) com> wrote

"Mark Brown" <mbrown (AT) drexelmgt (DOT) com> wrote

Account name on tape :
Dictionary name on tape :
File name on tape :

Not sure what is wanted for dictionary name.

Ed

Just tried it. Clicked on this link:

ftp://ftp.rainingdata.com/pub/mvBase...operations.pdf

and got "The page cannot be found"

Not sure what's up - all my ftp link attempts fail...

Ed

"Ross Ferris" <rossf (AT) stamina (DOT) com.au> wrote

r u using ie or another browser?
you may need to tweak some settings
in internet explorer.

--
frosty

Ed Sheehan wrote:

Ed,

They want either the same name as the dict name, or null.

Example:
sel-restore myfile itemx
account name on tape: *acctname*
Dictionary name on tape: myfile
File name on tape: myfile

It's possible you can just hit return at the filename prompt and one of two
things will happen:

1) it will assume with no data name that they are the same and you want
data from the "myfile" file; or
2) it will assume you are restoring from the dictionary portion of the
file.

Sorry, can't be more specific than that. Wasn't mvBase the product RD
bought from GA? Alike but not the same?


Mark Brown

"Ed Sheehan" wrote:

I just d/l'd firefox and it still gives a not-found error. When I typed in
ftp://ftp.rainingdata.com/, it came back with "under construction."

Which browser are you using? I'll get it and try again...

Thanks,

Ed

"frosty" <frostyj (AT) bogus (DOT) tld> wrote

"Mark Brown" <mbrown (AT) drexelmgt (DOT) com> wrote

I think it does number 2) (!) because it takes off when I press enter there.
So I duped the filename for both dict and data and it found the items I
needed (it allows a select-list to be active.) It appears to be just a
syntactical difference from D3.

Yes, mvBase is just like D3, except when it's not. I also need to increase
the size of the blob since the client is down to about 1% left, so I need
those docs bad. If you or anyone knows of a browser that can hook up to the
ftp site (I've tried IE and Fireox), please let me know.

Thanks,

Ed

As of 16:30 Pacific Daylight time 19 April 2007, I had no problems
accessing the FTP site by navigating through the Raining Data web
pages using FireFox.

Regards dale