Re: Simple Question(s)

Tim Witort wrote:
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>>Does any version of VFP have lockfiling built in for
>>multi-user apps?
>>
>>I am currently trying to run VFP5.0 on a network with
>>XP and Vista clients and a linux file server. Each
>>client has its own VFP. This is intended to be an
>>update from multi-user foxbase running under an
>>older version of SCO unix.
>>
>>I am presently able to create database collisions
>>as I am set up with VFP on the client machines and
>>the app along with databases on the server. My VFP
>>5.0 do***entation doesn't address lockfiles so I am
>>assuming they don't exist?
>>
>>The business owner is totally enamored by the accounting
>>software he's running and refuses to change, so I'm
>>stuck updating from an interpreter that doesn't do
>>21st century dates correctly.
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> It sounds like you may be running an app in a multiuser setting
> that was not intended for that.  VFP definitely has locking
> built in - down to the record level.  However, if not implemented
> correctly, any conflicts would raise errors or not-so-user-friendly
> dialog boxes rather than gracefully taking care of things.
> People have been successfully writing and using multiuser VFP
> apps for about 20 years.

Thanks for your reply. The apps are multiuser (sbt accounting)
and have run fine that way for the better part of 2 decades
under foxbase and mfoxplus. (I'd love to switch them to
something other than sbt but they insist on sticking with
what they know and love.)

Back to the drawing board on this one. I'm doing something wrong.

Where does VFP write the lockfiles? In the directory with the
database? In the directory that has the app in it? In a VFP
directory?

Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this.