Foxpro 2.6a and Windows 2000

[chrisjohnson]

A user recently upgraded to a Dell pc with Windows 2000 Professional and her FPW2.6a application stopped working. After searching all of the articles here, I visted her office and copied the patched version of the .ESL file and it seems to work OK. I noticed that the C: drive was a NTFS drive and was surprised that the app worked at all, after reading several sources that said to run only on a FAT drive. The question is this, should I be concerned about running on a NTSF drive? Will unexpected errors or data corruption surface later? Thanks,

 

[rgbean]

Chris,
I wouldn't worry about the underlying file system - I've been using FPD/FPW on NT (NTFS) for ~4 years now, and I've never had a problem. FoxPro in all of it's variants still use standard DOS/WinAPI calls to do all the disk IO. If you have any problems, it's more likely due to the OS caching settings and sometimes the HD controlers. Of course, since FP uses it's own buffering scheme (as much memory as it can find <g>), sometimes &quot;marginal&quot; (quality and/or speed rated) RAM can also give you problems.

Rick