Expand Files Question

[John Esak]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Laura
> Brody
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 5:05 PM
> To: Henry Melancon; filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: Expand Files Question
>
>
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:42:05 -0500, Henry Melancon
> <hemelancon at gifinc.com> wrote:
>
> > Windows Server
> > Filepro 5.0
> >
> > Why would I get a message which states "Room for 0 more
> records" when I try to expand files?  I have gigabytes of storage
> available on the server.  I am trying to upgrade from 4.8 to 5.0
> and I am getting this message when expanding files on my test server.
>
> 	filePro v5.0 and earlier doesn't know how to handle
> 2 gigabytes (or larger) of hard drive space, so you have to
> tell it "don't check for HD space". Set the environmental
> variable PFNODF=NO.
>
> --
> Laura Brody

Okay, I'm going to byte on this one... I see you have PFNODF (NO-Disk-Free
check... I assume) being set equal to NO.  Shouldn't it be YES?  And don't
answer this too quickly, because on my BSD filePro niether answer makes it
work really nicely. That is, PFNODF=YES will stop the free space check for
restructuring, but causes a warning/question to come up every single time
you enter ddefine... this is dumb. Why? Because nowhere else in filePro are
you *warned* about doing bad things to yourself with bad settings in the
environment. I think this question/warning should go bye/bye. What would
happen with autoshuf when it hits this question? Probably not good stuff.

John