virtual PC record locking

[Nancy Palmquist]

Joe Chasan wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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 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.
Joe,

This note will help any Windows Manager determine if the filePro 
installed is correct.

set PFVER=on (or put PFVER=ON in the Config list)

Open each and every runtime program and check the version numbers, 
*clerk, *report, dxmaint, dprodir


Make sure the VERSION number is reported with an N as part of the 
letters.  That will insure it was really a "complete" network install. 
Check each clerk and each report.  Upgrades do not write over active 
programs and I have often see an upgrade that was partially done because 
someone was in filePro when they did it and one executable does not upgrade.

Nancy

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