I started the Archive tutorial recently with a view to learning this properly next weekend, and have come up against a problem early on.
I am on page 11 of the QL manual's Archive section, "Creating a File"
I type
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new
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create "books" <ENTER>
author$ <ENTER>
title$ <ENTER>
subject$ <ENTER>
isbn <ENTER>
endcreate <ENTER>
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Error 100: Can not open file
mdv/flp 1 set to the Zip file of Archive 2.3.8 (floppy version) downloaded from Dilwyn's site
mdv/flp 2 set to a folder on macOS
I have set PROG_USE to flp1_, DATA_USE to flp2_, just in case that was the issue, but no change
Anyone have any thoughts as to what I am doing wrong?
Thanks
PS - has anyone else read "Database Management on the Sinclair QL" from the "Sinclair QL Series"? I had to start laughing at one point as the author really does not seem very happy with Archive at all. On about 4 or 5 occasions he has a little rant about why he thinks something has been implemented very, very badly
Also the book is terribly edited, with a missing section between chapters 1 and 2 and chapters not in the order that the author refers to them - ie he refers to a procedure created in the previous chapter, except it's created in the same chapter, only later on.
Despite that, very useful book with lots of good insights.