On 12 Jun., 19:05, nonsense <nonse...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Tim Witort wrote:
> > nonsense seemed to utter
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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.
>
> > 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.
Why do you try to run this app in VFP? Without rewriting it I do not
see any advantage here and you will have troubles to run it as is -
screens and re****ts above all.
FoxPro is "default multiuser" since times of FoxPro DOS, but I have
never read about FoxPro file-lock files. It is internal thing of
FoxPro and you cannot affect it anyway. The thing im****tant to know is
for example the FoxPro locking schema is not compatible with Clipper.
I have not tried to run mfoxplus in Vista, but it works in W2K/XP.
>
> 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.
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