We found out with the last couple of HCDB potential releases that the country names were not being imported correctly by the PE (Platform Editor). There is no problem exporting from the PE, just importing. The import does not error out but rather imports incorrect information for the higher numbered country names (has to do with a 1024 character limit so saying exactly where the problem shows up is difficult as it varies with each DB).

 

For those of you MS Access fans, the import specification called bsStringsImport has a column set to a fixed length of 1024 characters. By modifying the import specification to 4096 characters it becomes more than wide enough to hold the underlying data structure.

 

Anyway, if you religiously import each version of the HCDB or make custom changes, we'll be happy to make the fix to your PE. Zip up your pfBuild2002.mdb file and e-mail it to PEFix@harpgamer.comand we'll try to get it back to you within 3 days. Making this repair does not break the PE's usage with any other databases. This 'service' will be ended when AGSI releases a patched PE.

Harpoon Commander's Edition was released in 2007 so the pefix service is being retired. It has been a chore, over and out