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Thanks Jock. I've always appreciated your input. We'll see if anyone has other thoughts. Jim

I am a novice programmer running and maintaining a few clipper programs at my business and at home. I use Clipper 5.2 and run the programs on XP Home SP3. I assume I will have to get WIN 7 when one of my three machines needs replacing. I have been reading about clipper programs and 16, 32 and...

Thanks for your reponses. I'll reply to each of you: Griff: each program runs on its own local harddrive. Folders can be shared but the errors do not involve sharing within Clipper programs. By “opportunistic file locking” are you referring to Clipper’s Flock() or something in Windows...

The referenced previous thread discussed the possibility that this was a file handle issue but that is DOS error 4. I am gettng DOS error 32: sharing violation. FYI I am using XP SP3. The problem is happening with two different programs running on two diffrent machines so it is not an...

thread288-1600081 I'm back with index opening issues similar to my previous dbf opening issues. Using a net_use function like the one Jock showed me last time gets my dbf's open reliably now. Thanks for that help. But I've had increasing problems recently with crashes related to index files not...

You are right, I'm not getting a DOS error "unable to open file". I remember being very frustrated some years ago when I didn't have SET CLIPPER=F high enough and couldn't open a file though I could see that the file was right there! I have rewritten the program using a modification of the...

Jock: To answer your questions: No other program opens these files and I am the only user. I do not specify Shared or Exclusive. I believe Clipper opens in exclusive mode by default if no specification is made, doesn’t it? The operating system is XP SP3 Your explanation makes sense however...

I am a novice Clipper programmer running a few programs for personal/office use. Several months ago I started experiencing crashes in one program. Most commonly it is "DBCMD error 2001: Work area not in use" from ordlistcle(0). This will be at a "Set Index to <ntx> " line which follows a "...