Just thought I would post a followup:
After making the changes - using the most recent version of
SETPTR and uping the FILES command in config.sys has not made a
difference. I got corruption in 2 files today from one report:
The lists file and the actual data file.
This making AREV unusable and my clients are becoming very frustrated.
It appears that I will have to bite the bullet and rewrite code to
bypass pdisk and open the file and use OS write commands. Not very
appealing.
Any further suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks - ed
I havent seen the other responses, but have you tried making AREV.EXE readonly.
Barry
I haven't checked recently but I usually keep most of Revboot RO. Forgive my ignorance, but how would making Arev.exe ro affect whether output is being placed in other files other than it would hopefully keep AREV.EXE from being corrupted?
I can't point you to a specific reference, but I read at one point that there can be a problem with PDISK and network files, with the suggestion that PDISK only be used with local files. Since I read that, whenever I do a PDISK, I direct output only to a local file, and I have not had any more problems.
Well this is the starnge thing (and what makes it so perplexing) I have had it happen on Local drives as well. Also, it seems some installations never have this problem and others do. I have 2 cients that are running different applications but are using the same report interface (just running different types of reports, and they never have this problem. All are running on Netware 3.11 servers. I do not know exactly what goes on in Setptr. Also I do not know what happens when you issue a Printer On or OFF in Rbasic. Some custom reports use those commands several times within a report. I am wondering if there could be some problem with that.
Also, it doesn't do it everytime - maybe only 50% of the time.
ed
Ed,
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Larry Wilson
TARDIS Systems, Inc.
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