virtual PC record locking

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Joe Chasan (Mon, 05 Dec 2005 14:37:24 -0500):

> I ran across a wierd setup today - a customer had an old fp 4.8.10
> installation - they had upgraded all their PCs to Win2000 (not sure
> why they didn't go XP, this must've been 2 years ago) - and they
> bought & setup Connectix Virtual PC to run filePro within Win/98se
> emulation as the fp they had did not run correctly under windows
> 2000.   fp binaries and data all all running/phsically located on
> server network share mapped drive.

FYI - filePro 1.0 will run on NT/2000/XP if you have a <32MB FAT
partition.  filePro 3.0 will run on them with PFDSK.

> With this being a 5 user network install (with PFNET=ON FWIW) - i'm
> curious - does this setup respect proper record locking?  Anyone with
> it installed with an opinion?

The easiest way to test -- have two sessions attempt to update the
same record in *clerk.

> The reason i was called in there in turned out to be corrupt indexes,
> causes could be many with fp version that old so I'm not sure if its
> related or not.
>
> It is slow as heck and they are letting me rip out both the virt-pc
> and fp4.8 in favor of a 5.0 upgrade, so its really just a matter of
> curiosity at this point.

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