Sharing a data base with another user

Is it possible to copy a Datapage data base to a CD and send the data in Datapage format to another Datapage user?

I've just completed 6 piece layouts, 10-3-3 GRRs, and 30 piece cape studies on several parts for a customer. They're now asking for the data to be sent to them in "Data Page" format. Can I simply navigate to the data base, copy all files within the folder to a CD, and send that copy to my customer?

Thanks in advance...

Bill

Yes,

I don't see why not. I do a weekly backup, and the other week I wanted to make sure that I could retrieve the data so I followed the path to where I backed up to and was able to open it. I think I have tried a CD also. That I think you need to take off of the disk to access.

Thanks James. I thought that should be the case but you never know with some of these software packages. I'll try it and let everyone know what I run into. (Hopefully not head first)

Bill

Is it possible to copy a Datapage data base to a CD and send the data in Datapage format to another Datapage user?

I've just completed 6 piece layouts, 10-3-3 GRRs, and 30 piece cape studies on several parts for a customer. They're now asking for the data to be sent to them in "Data Page" format. Can I simply navigate to the data base, copy all files within the folder to a CD, and send that copy to my customer?

Thanks in advance...

Bill

From Dp editor got to ASCII Archive>Dump and create the file.
Customer won't have any issues loading into his Database.

Yes, you can just zip-up the entire directory and send it to them, they can then open the database. PROVIDING that they are using the same level of database that YOU are. At one point, they changed the database drastically, I think it was between V2x and V3x (where they are now). And, the old DOS database was different still.

Sounds like they want to make sure that you are not cheating. However, sending them the database isn't going to keep a person from cheating. Ya gotta know how to cheat to catch a cheater. Ya gotta know how to cheat to even be able to see if they cheated. And, there are some things that are d@mn hard to tell if it was cheated or not.

Had a part in here (Saturn) that had an SPC point directly on a net. We told them, they said check it anyway. When I reported the Ppk of 1,800,000+ (or some such outrageous number), they said we cheated. They came in, we had to run the entire study again with them watching and writting down numbers as they showed on the screen. Came up again with some outrageous number and we (ONCE AGAIN) pointed out that it was checking on a net surface. Then they went, "oh".

You only need to copy the following:
DATAPG6.D01 through DATAPG6.D05
DATAPG6.K01 & DATAPG6.K02
DATAPG6.DBD

Or perform an Ascii Dump/Load for the part(s) desired.

Thanks all. They aren't concerned with any cheating. These are prototype parts. They wrote three off line programs but dont have the envelope on their own machine to run them. I debugged the programs and ran 6 piece layouts, GRRs, and 30 piece cape studies for them but they wanted all of the output in their formats. I didn't have time to develope their reporting templates and formats so I just sent them the data.

I simply made a copy of all of the files in the datapage directory for their parts, zipped up the copy and emailed it to them. I got a BIG thanks this morning from them, so this does work just fine.

Again thanks all for the assist.

Bill