MOVIE DATABASE v2.6 Amiga - TROUBLESHOOTING (04.12.93)
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Originally I intended to release version 2.7 these days, but due to some
forthcoming changes in the databasefile format that would make it impossible
for you to further update your database, I decided to delay it for a few 
weeks and I wrote this little collection of bugfixes and hints for version
2.6 instead.

1) BUGFIX:
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   Did you ever ask yourself why 'mtitle' is unable to find certain movies
   although 'mfind' claims that they are available?

   Now here's the solution:
 
   Due to a bug in 'makedb' the file 'movies.dbs' is not being sorted upon
   installation. 

   typing 'makedb -movie' in a CLI-/SHELL-Window will fix the problem.
   
2) INSTALLATION-PROBLEMS:
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   Some people appear to have problems with installing the moviedatabase.
   Well, there are a few things that I should have mentioned in the docs:

   Although the basic installation process does not need megabytes of memory,
   the amount of available RAM seems to be the major cause of installation
   failure ('VOLUME RAM: FULL').
   The reason for this is that 'makedb' creates very big temporary files in
   the 'T:'-volume, which is - in most cases - assigned to the RAM-Disk.
   Reassigning T: to an appropriate directory on your harddisk will solve this
   problem, provided that you have enough space to spare on your harddisk.
   (eg.: 'assign T: SYS:t')
   NOTE: The time for installation will be considerably longer then.

   Others were confused by the directory structure. Before starting the 
   installation process by typing 'makedb', your directory should look like
   this:

   .../moviedatabase         <- this is the directory where 'MDB:' is assigned 
                                to or the environment-variable 'moviedatabase'
                                is set to.  
                                This is also the directory where the '*.list' 
                                and '*.dbs' files have to be located. You'll 
                                gonna be in trouble if you try to store your 
                                database-files in a different directory. 
                                NOTE: All database-files that you want to have
                                installed must be located here and not in the
                                '/lists' directory!
   .../moviedatabase/bin     <- this is the directory where the executables are
                                located and where your path is added to.
   .../moviedatabase/docs    <- this is the directory where the amigaguide-file
                                is stored. 
   .../moviedatabase/sources <- you can keep the sources here if you want to.
   .../moviedatabase/lists   <- basically this directory is not needed!

   Don't forget to sort the 'movies.dbs' by typing 'makedb -movie' after
   makedb has finished!


If you still have troubles getting the moviedatabase to work on your Amiga, 
don't hesitate to contact me: 

   MAIL:    Andre Bernhardt
            Pfaffstr. 6
            76227 Karlsruhe
            Germany

   EMAIL:   ujad@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de

Please don't bother Colin Needham with your Amiga-problems.


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The next release of the moviedatabase will support many new features such as:

   - Installation and updating completely done with 'MovieMUI'. 

   - added support for the biographies.list

   - added support for the crazy-credits.list

   - added support for a german-akafile to provide german movie-titles for
     those who are interested.

   - 'MovieMUI' has an improved user interface.

   - some bugfixes and improvements.