MV3.12 Help with database needed.

[John Foster <jfoster@augustmail.com>]

I am trying to get MV to use a database built on Lotus Approach and
exported to the PC DOS/OS2 (should I use Windows ascii) format of type.
I have tried several ways to get it running with the result always being
that the price field yields only 0.00. I made the price field a
"calculated" field in Approach and when I exported the file it looks OK
in any ascii text viewer. Some items have 3 or 4 decimal places, is that
the problem or is the fact that the field is calculated the problem. If
I repalce my products.asc with the original simple catalog products.asc
file everything works fine. I NEED to be able to have the prices
calculated as that is how I establish the markup on my products. The
database is way too large to manage by individual item (over 100,000
items). Also I am wondering about the memory requirements for using MV
on my machine with a DB of this size. I have it running on the following
system:

Dual Pentium CPU-166 x586
Debian Linux Slink dist
10Gb of drive space
130mb swap file
128 mb ram

Running Servers Related to MV
	MV3.12
	Apache-ssl
	WebMin with ShopAdmin modules to manage databases(especially MV)

I ask this because The last time I tried to reload the database the
entire system crashed and screwed op the filesystem (I rebooted from a
second Linux drive and rebuilt the server file tree and restored
everything so no problem there) however This has NEVER happened  before.
Thanks!
John
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