Hi Steve,
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Guess what? I am using buffering, but the people I work for asked me yesterday to switch to SCATTER/GATHER and dump the buffering. I have all my programs working fine using buffering, but they claim that some network applications are being affected by my buffering. I don't agree with them, but I have argued with them about buffering in the past and they let me slide, but now they are serious and told me to never use buffering for apps on their network ever.This is ridiculous. Did they try to explain how it was affecting "some network applications"? What their evidence of this was? First, VFP runs in its own address space. Second, buffering is managed by VFP internally.
>Granted, I might need to add some record-locking error detection for multi-user editing of records, but other than that, I can't believe I have to change every program I have ever written from buffering to SCATTER/GATHER.
Oh yes, you'll need to add RLOCKS(), etc. You shouldn't have to, but, as the saying goes, "He who pays the piper calls the tune."
>Am I having fun yet? Hmmmmm... Thanks for the info.
Fun??? My sympathies.
George
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