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What's R-base?

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by blackcurrant

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Hi

One of the machines on my company network contains a folder named config.msi. Within the folder are, according to my file extension identifier, R-base files. I have never heard of R-base files. I have recently upgraded this machine from W95 to W98. Are they part of the install procedure, and if so, why do they not appear on any of the other machines I have upgraded.

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by hinrgman

The rbase files I am familiar with are dbase files that are packaged with an executible version of dbase and run on their own. Usually a database application of some sort usually a dos application.

by erikdr

R:Base was a database platform competing with dBase in the DOS days. However I doubt whether that's the one you spotted, because config.msi points towards a Windows Installer script and MSI dates from way after R:Base was made. So looks like a mistake from the identifier - another app has used the same extension. Maybe search for this extension in the MS MSI docs (on support.microsoft.com), chance it is one of the MSI file formats. If yes, these were support files for installing an app solely on this machine...

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by ann777

R:Base is "relational database" -- it still exists today (go to www.rbase.com for more info)

This is not part of any Windows upgrade, which means that the computer you are looking at either has had R:Base files on it at some point in time or itstill does.

Does this machine have any accounting functionality? Is there any kind of DBMS (database management system) software on it? Are you getting any kind of errors on this computer?

I'd recommend you leave it alone if you are not getting any kind of errors. Another option is to backup the folder and then rename it and see if the users of that computer come up with any problems. If not, then after a few weeks, you probably can get rid of the file.

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