freechain error

[Dennis Malen]

Just got back from vacation.

The problem was the use of the "-" as lookup. I changed it to lookup with 
the name of the actual file and it worked well.

As far as the speed of my system in conjunction with freechain I don't kow 
why it worked so fast. In any event we have not had a problem since I 
changed the lookup.

It probably is an FP problem but it works when I changed the method of 
lookup.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Harrison" <jeffaharrison at yahoo.com>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: freechain error


> --- Dennis Malen <dmalen at malen.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't know. Just John Esak's thought. He turned
>> out to be right.
>>
>> Dennis
>
> I have seen a situation where the lookup - caused the
> freechain to get corrupted also.  This was several
> years ago.  I reported it to fptech, but I was unable
> to come up with a duplicable scenario.
>
> Unfortunately the process would work 99.9% of the
> time.  When the freechain got corrupted the whole
> application would lock up with record zero locked as I
> recall.  I ended writing my own freechain program that
> simply wrote a zero to the freechain pointer in the
> key header record.  Then I had filepro rebuild the
> freechain on this file on a weekly basis.
>
> Of course the fact that the freechain was corrupted
> for you does not explain why when you ran the
> freechain program it returned immediately.  Is you
> system so fast that it ran through 25,000 records in a
> fraction of a second?
>
> Jeff Harrison
> jeffaharrison at yahoo.com
>
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