The Rel Forum

I'm assuming this is a bug, though it's not causing me any problem. It would be a security issue in a commercial database. Backups I'm currently taking of a database I created about a month ago always include a huge entry for sys.rev.ScriptHistory, examination of which shows what appears to be an en...

I clicked the icon to suppress the appearance of type names in column headings. That worked, but when I subsequently clicked the Name+type icon to get them back again, it didn't.

I'm using V3.010 in Windows 10 with "Fall update".

Hugh Darwen

I withdraw this complaint. I tried again shortly after posting it and suddenly all is working again. Very strange, as I didn't change anything.

Hugh

With 3.008 and previous versions I have been invoking rel (from Rexx programs!) with an argument giving the directory name for my required database. This no longer works with 3.009. I always get the default database instead.

Hugh Darwen

It's very disappointing, in my case, to have to use ten clicks when my first Save is for saving a file I've just loaded and executed. In the old Dbrowser it took just three: click on Save in lower pane toolbar, click on Save in dialog box, click on Yes. Now I need several double clicks to get to the...

Thanks for the replies, which are all very good as far as I'm concerned. I should have got a trade mark for D! (assuming it wasn't used already before 1994)

Your treatment of .d and .rel files dropped on to Rel.exe is just fine. Why didn't I just try it? Sorry.

Hugh

Okay, I now see that preferences are stored in rel.reldb.org. I was being inconsistent in directories I was starting Rel.exe in. Now I'm trying to make sure I always start in the directory containing the database I'm starting with, defaulting to the Rel-provided default one. I can't think of a way i...

(Shouldn't this section be renamed now that Dbrowser doesn't exist under that name?) So I eventually managed to get double-click on .rdb to work in V3.2 on Windows 10. I ran into a couple of minor problems to begin with. Both have gone away now so I don't need any fixes for them, but I thought I sho...

I'm posting this in case other Rel users have run into the same problems with Windows 10. I wanted to make .rel files open in Wordpad and .rdb files in Rel.exe (not that I actually expect to be double-clicking on .rdb files). It turns out to be extraordinarily difficult to make the required associat...

What's happened to the scripts previously provided as OperatorsChar.d, etc.? I have successfully loaded and compiled OperatorsChar.d so I suppose the ones I used in V1.0.12 all still work, but new users won't see these and in any case I also suppose the extension should now be .rel. The change to .r...

Thanks, Dave. That was a good guess, re spaces in the path to Rel.exe. I had one and I removed it and then the restore worked fine. For a backup consisting of 3186 lines that's quite an achievement. A long time ago it was a matter of self-discipline for me never to have spaces in directory or file n...

Many thanks for the fixes. So far I've verified starting with a specified database by dragging and dropping the relevant directory, removal of the default database tab, and, from a Windows command line "rel d:\alldocs\AllRelDatabases\newdd". Unfortunately, my attempt to restore from a back...

Thanks for the explanations and advice. Alas, the latter has not entirely helped and in any case offers suggestions that would not solve my problems. First, I removed the blanks from that directory name (which invalidated in several of my "shortcuts", grumble grumble!) but restore from bac...

I regret that I'm unable to upgrade to Rel V3 from Dbrowser V1.0.12 (excited by the new ATTRIBUTES_OF operator) for the following reasons: Rel.exe appears to have replaced Dbrowser.jar. Dbrowser allows me to specify the Rel database to work with, this being a Windows directory in which a database ei...

Sorry, I seem to have misled myself concerning DO. Regarding THEN and ELSE, I worried about possible ambiguity but on reflection I agree that there probably isn't, thanks to the requirement for END IF and END CASE. Also, a statement beginning with key word ELSE ends a statement list following THEN. ...