Directions For Accessing SQL WINTALK from ECS (Engineering and Computer Science Building) Student Labs

• Double click the folder that says Main (inside Windows 3.1)
• Open up the application 'File Manager'
• Select the Option that says Disk
• Select the sub-option 'Network Connections' within it (this should bring you up a screen where you can specify the drive mappings and stuff)
• Select a logical drive mapping from his screen (Choose the one that's empty)
• On the text-field that says 'PATH' type in \\BC-LAN1\APPS:SQL (This will map the directory to the previously chosen logical drive mapping)
• Click on the Map button (This will be on the bottom right hand corner of the screen)
• Close the screen (Do not exit File Manager)
• Now goto C:
• Make a directory called sqlbase
• Move into the sqlbase directory
• Copy a file called start.dbs that's within the gupta directory to c:\sqlbase. This Gupta directory will reside below the SQL directory. The SQL directory was the one to which you mapped a logical drive to.
• Goto Gupta again and double click on Wintalk.exe. This opens up SQLWintalk for you

3. Check the new & the overwrite box.

4. Give a name for your database & click OK.

You *SHOULD BE* fine after these steps, as I've tested them out personally & it works.

Please note that you since the database is created on the local drive, you need to copy the database to a floppy before you leave the lab. Otherwise, you WILL lose all your work, since the files are deleted on a daily basis. You also need to make sure that you quit from Wintalk and close the SQL database engine before you copy the database to a floppy.

If you already have your database on a floppy (that is, if you are returning to the lab) you need to follow instruction 1 and do the following additional steps

• create a directory with the same name as the database in c:\sqlbase.
• copy the database from your floppy to this directory you should then be able to connect to this directory from Wintalk.