DataPerfect Program Requirements & Capacities

Hardware requirements for DataPerfect are unchanged from earlier versions.


Hardware and Operating System Requirements

Requires DOS 2.1 or higher to run in a stand-alone environment, DOS 3.0 recommended.

Requires DOS 3.0 or higher to run on a network

Operates on machines as old as the "XT" or 8088's.

Runs perfectly under Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT, and/or any other PC based operating system. (Based on user reports to inquires on this topic in the DataPerfect Discussion Group Home Page Archives).


DataPerfect Program Maximum Capacities

Data file size, 2 billion bytes

Records per file, 16 million

Index entries per data file, 16 million

Index size, 8 Gigabytes

Fields per record (panel), 125

Files (Panels) per database, 99

Report variables per report, 250

Reports per database application, 169. Maximum file size 64,000 bytes

Maximum Alphanumeric field size, 78 characters by 23 lines

Numeric field size, 14 digits

TXX file, 534,773,728 bytes

Text field size, 64,000 bytes

A text field can be defined with a maximum of 78 characters per line and a maximum of 23 lines per record (panel), but may contain up to 64,000 bytes.

Thank you, Ralph Alvy, for the updated stats.

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