I have an application running Btrieve 6.15. Today I upgraded the DBE
to Pervasive v.8.5. Upon the completion of the installation I was
prompted for a reboot. While booting up, an error came up stating
"Cannot find a device file that may be needed to run Windows or a

Our company runs two major apps using a Btrieve database. I was wondering if
anybody has ported either
Btrieve server or client to Linux. It is an extremely fast database (and
highly underrated too) which

Hi, a very simple question:
if one create (internal) indices at a time, when the file in question is used
from another workstation (record locks, record updates, inserts etc), can this
lead to any troubble? Or is "create index" allowed at any time?

I need informations.
Pvsw8 server NT on WTS server2003
Suppose I open FILE.BTR with FUNCTION EXECUTOR and then I go to
MONITOR to DELETE this user. For next operation of EXECUTOR obviously

Our customers updated from 8.1 to 8.6.
Now they have to reboot their servers or restart the server-engines
after some days, because the applications can't connect to the
database.

I have a problem with my Magic 9 app. and Pervasive 8. A specific part of
our software continuosly checks if there's new data and updates the
database. If not, the software idles for half a minute and checks again.
While the software is checking and updating, the utilisation on ...

Hi, i have btr and ddf files. I have the pervasive database. I need to
export btr to ascii or other. Please help me.
Thanks.
Alessandro

I have a Clarion serial data that I need to convert to a Btrieve Date.
The clarion serial date is based from 28, dec 1800. That is the first
day. How can I convert it to a Pervasive Date? I'm using Pervasive 8
and I need to create a stored procedure to do this. With Oracle I can

I'm working in the small software company with over 300 users, most of them
using Pervasive 7 or 8 transactional engine. Lately, we had quite a bit of
problems regarding indexes which can be eliminated using Rebuild utility
provided with Pervasive package. Problems are showing as ...

DAC 12 is suddenly giving us brief lag time, or momentary hang
problems. Random occurrence, not repeatable. Lookups or transactions
all of a sudden freeze, and DAC screen blanks in sections (where entry
field or window should have changed/popped). Releases within 60