Microsoft KB Archive/62770

= Must Load PROISAM or PROISAMD to Use ISAM Utilities =

Article ID: 62770

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.0
 * Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.1

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This article was previously published under Q62770



SUMMARY
As stated on Page 389 of the &quot;Microsoft Basic 7.0: Programmer's Guide&quot; for versions 7.00 and 7.10, when using the ISAM utilities ISAMIO, ISAMCVT, or ISAMPACK, you must have the ISAM support installed.

Depending on how you ran SETUP.EXE, the ISAM utilities ISAMIO.EXE, ISAMCVT.EXE, and ISAMPACK.EXE are built either to run as stand-alone programs or to require the terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) form of ISAM (PROISAMD.EXE). SETUP always installs the ISAMREPR.EXE (ISAM repair) utility to run as a stand-alone program. For more information about how SETUP installs the ISAM utilities, search for a separate article in this Knowledge Base with the following words:

how and SETUP and builds and ISAMIO



MORE INFORMATION
The following table describes what each of the ISAM utilities does:   Utility Name        Use ---

ISAMREPR           Repairs or rebuilds database

ISAMCVT            Converts other ISAM file types to the ISAM format used by Basic PDS 7.00

ISAMPACK           Rotates all deleted records to the end of the ISAM file, and if a 32K section is marked for deletion, it decreases the size of the data file by 32K

ISAMIO             Converts to or from simple ASCII text files and ISAM files

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