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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Btrieve''' is the indexed record-storage system used by ''Galactic Empire'' and MajorBBS. GE saves players, ships, planets, and mail as records in separate files. Unlike a table queried with SQL, a Btrieve file is accessed through operations such as finding a record by a '''key''' or stepping to the next or previous record in key order.<br />
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The same file can have several keys. For example, GE can find a player by user ID, while the user database's score key lets [[Roster command|<code>ROSTER</code>]] walk players in score order. The game does not need to load every player and sort the list itself. When a stored score changes, the database updates that key's ordering. This is why a key's field offset and signedness matter: they affect lookup and order, not just how bytes are saved. See [[Scoring and rosters]] and [[Data structures]] for GE's specific records and keys.<br />
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GE's <code>.DAT</code> files are therefore not plain text, and the separate team file is an exception: it is a text table, not Btrieve. On 32-bit systems, the Btrieve call interface is known as <code>WBTRV32</code>. [[MBBSEmu]] uses the [https://github.com/mbbsemu/wbtrv32 open-source WBTRV32 replacement], which preserves the Btrieve-style calls while storing the live data in SQLite <code>.db</code> files. See [[Database files]] for filenames, backups, and resets.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Database files]]<br />
* [[Data structures]]<br />
* [[Roster command]]<br />
* [[MBBSEmu]]<br />
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