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>No, I'm sorry. However, it looks like the name of the table itself is stored as pure text, so I would take the chance and change it. I suggest that you make sure that the length of the table names are the same.
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>Another solution would be to use Gendbc.prg which i in the tools\Gendbc folder. This program creates a program which you can run to regenerate a DBC. This means that you can run Gendbc, change the generated program and run it. To me this sounds like a safer solution.
Thank you. I will look into the Gendbc. But it is still disappointing that there is no simple way to change a table name, both physical file name and the name in the database. What good is the RENAME TABLE command then?
>No, I'm sorry. However, it looks like the name of the table itself is stored as pure text, so I would take the chance and change it. I suggest that you make sure that the length of the table names are the same.
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>Another solution would be to use Gendbc.prg which i in the tools\Gendbc folder. This program creates a program which you can run to regenerate a DBC. This means that you can run Gendbc, change the generated program and run it. To me this sounds like a safer solution.
Thank you. I will look into the Gendbc. But it is still disappointing that there is no simple way to change a table name, both physical file name and the name in the database. What good is the RENAME TABLE command then?
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"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham