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[Mike Schwartz]

> I think this is one of those cases where, many years ago, someone thought
> they needed to let the computer "catch up", and added a sleep (or
> equivalent), and then (by sheer coincidence) things "magically" started to
> work, and now they simply drop in a sleep whenever they have some
> problem with external programs using filePro-created data.
> 
> --
> Kenneth Brody

     You might be referring to somebody else, but, circa 1999, I did run
into a repeatable scenario on a Windows 98 networked filePro 4.5 system.
Because it turned out to be related to the high-powered graphics cards that
were somehow delaying the data writes on the old IDE controllers, it took me
several days to figure out.  The user needed the high-powered graphics cards
to stay in the computers, so I added increasingly long sleep commands until
I was sure the export files had all completed.

     When I encountered other MS-DOS/Windows systems with similar problems,
it was easier to add a second or two worth of sleep commands than it was to
do a lot of hardware troubleshooting.    

Mike Schwartz