slow FP on windows

[charles day]

Richard D. Williams wrote:

> I have only one client still using FP for dos/windows.  They have a 
> win 2000 server.
> I don't do a lot of work for this client, but I have noticed extremely 
> slow performance when posting to any file.
>
> PFDSK is set to the shared drive of F:.  Filepro resided in F:\fp and 
> filepro files in F:\filepro.
>
> Is there some other environment variable I should set.  This thing 
> takes 5 mins. to post 379 records. The processing table is only 
> opening one file and creating a new record for each source record.
> I did not write the code, but I can see no reason this should take so 
> long.  In SCO or RH, it would be a 30 sec - 1 min. process.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Richard D. Williams
>
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Richard,

If they have mcafee or norton anti-virus running, shut it off.  They 
will slow operation significantly.

Charles Day