greg_motter

Hello all, not sure if anyone still reads this board much but I have a
question.

We are trying to restore an old database to get some information about
an old account for one of our clients. It is version 2.1 of
Revelation. It used to run on a novell server and we had the TSR
installed on the app that was on backup.

At some point our novell server crashed that was storing this data. We
are attempting to just restore this data to a window's directory so
that we can get to the data for this one account.

When I go to start up Revelation, i get the following error:

"Unable to read VERBS in media map"

If anyone has any suggestions it'd be greatly appreciated.

richard wilson

have you restore all of the directories related to the application

you may need to run AREV.EXE from the arev directory and then it will attached
the data files for the application (where ever they are stored)

Rich

greg_motter

I've tried running the AREV.EXE from the base directory for this
application and it does not seem to find the files unfortunately.
There is no Arev directory.

capn queeg

On the assumption that you do not have a working copy of ARev on a local
hard drive and you want to run a copy of the application on a local
harddrive you must do this:

Copy all files and subdirectories is the folder where AREV.EXE is in into a
folder on the Windows workstation. Recreate the sub-directory structures.

Copy all the subdirectories with datafiles onto the same workstation,
recreating the subdirectory structure.

Locate every occurrance of the REVPARAM and edit the line:
SERVERONLY=TRUE
changing it to
SERVERONLY=FALSE

Remove the Novell network driver for ARev: Start AREV with as the user
BUMP. Note expanded memory with 4096K of EMM should be available from the
command prompt or the rebinding of the network driver may fail. From the
command prompt in the directory with AREV.EXE type:

AREV BUMP /xm4096

In the Current Network Driver prompt press F2 and pick Non-Networking
Driver v2.1x. Press F9 to commit changes.

Login to SYSPROG in ARev and change all the paths in the Environments of
the Application and User(s) from the mapped network drives to the local
drive paths.

Login to the Application and change any attach processes from the network
drives to the local drive paths. You may have to do this from SYSPROG with
SET-FILE aliasing. It depends and when and how the volumes are attached.

I don't understand what you are trying to do exactly. If the Novell system
has been restored then everything from the last backup should be there
unless files were open during the backup.

Hello all, not sure if anyone still reads this board much but I have a
question.

We are trying to restore an old database to get some information about
an old account for one of our clients. It is version 2.1 of
Revelation. It used to run on a novell server and we had the TSR
installed on the app that was on backup.

At some point our novell server crashed that was storing this data. We
are attempting to just restore this data to a window's directory so
that we can get to the data for this one account.

When I go to start up Revelation, i get the following error:

"Unable to read VERBS in media map"

If anyone has any suggestions it'd be greatly appreciated.

richard wilson

have you restore all of the directories related to the application

you may need to run AREV.EXE from the arev directory and then it will attached
the data files for the application (where ever they are stored)

Rich

I've tried running the AREV.EXE from the base directory for this
application and it does not seem to find the files unfortunately.
There is no Arev directory.

capn queeg

On the assumption that you do not have a working copy of ARev on a local
hard drive and you want to run a copy of the application on a local
harddrive you must do this:

Copy all files and subdirectories is the folder where AREV.EXE is in into a
folder on the Windows workstation. Recreate the sub-directory structures.

Copy all the subdirectories with datafiles onto the same workstation,
recreating the subdirectory structure.

Locate every occurrance of the REVPARAM and edit the line:
SERVERONLY=TRUE
changing it to
SERVERONLY=FALSE

Remove the Novell network driver for ARev: Start AREV with as the user
BUMP. Note expanded memory with 4096K of EMM should be available from the
command prompt or the rebinding of the network driver may fail. From the
command prompt in the directory with AREV.EXE type:

AREV BUMP /xm4096

In the Current Network Driver prompt press F2 and pick Non-Networking
Driver v2.1x. Press F9 to commit changes.

Login to SYSPROG in ARev and change all the paths in the Environments of
the Application and User(s) from the mapped network drives to the local
drive paths.

Login to the Application and change any attach processes from the network
drives to the local drive paths. You may have to do this from SYSPROG with
SET-FILE aliasing. It depends and when and how the volumes are attached.

I don't understand what you are trying to do exactly. If the Novell system
has been restored then everything from the last backup should be there
unless files were open during the backup.