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Peer to Peer Win95 network performance
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28/03/1997 10:25:06
F Joseph
Xinjiang Electric Power Company
Urumqi, China
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Visual FoxPro
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FoxPro 2.x
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00025947
Message ID:
00026067
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>> >I'm setting up FoxPro file sharing, but have noticed some performance
>> issues I'm hoping someone can shed some insight on. We have a peer to
>peer
>> network using Windows 95 file sharing. I have one PC as a dedicated
>server
>> that has all database files and our application. It has the processing
>> power of a Pentium-75, 16 MB RAM, and a 500 MB hard disk. The local
>> (client PC's) each have FoxPro 2.6 for Windows and a Config.fpw file that
>
>> points to the mapped network drive, sets tmpfiles to the local drive and
>> sets the resource file to the local drive as recommended in the
>Developers
>> Guide. The local PC's are 133MHz Pentiums.
>>
>Tom:
> I am starting study vfp c/s design.
> In a local Peer to Peer Win95 network , if either server datasource
>and client frontend data is vfp3.0.
>I want to know what is different between local view and remote view? local
>view could visit and update
>by network share,too.

Local View is really just using a VFP Datasource and a remote view is using an 'external' datasource such as SQL Server.

HTH,
Tom
Tom
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