>In my VFP EXE I have a standard one error routine:
>ON ERROR DO ErrFORM WITH ERROR() ...
>This normally works very well.
>Sometimes I get a very strange error:
>File ErrFORM.SCX does not exist
>This has puzzled me for a while as it happened rarely and could not be simulated. However today I removed my network cable and immediately the same error popped up.
>I now think that this is happening because there is a sometimes a very short loss of connection to the network. Note that both the EXE and my datafiles are on the network.
>Is there a timeout or retry setting I can set to avoid this sort of error to ensure that when access to the network is not available, it waits for a longer period trying to access the network?
A reliable network is a
requirement for a file-server database app like VFP. Your client needs to fix it. Fix the problem, not the symptoms.
Regards. Al
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