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Corrupt DBF tables in VFP 6.0
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00416824
Message ID:
00419060
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>Hi Vlad,
>
>Seems it is not exactly right. FLUSH sends the command to write the data on disk and data are passed to operating system. At this point the data are saved on disk as far as FoxPro concerned, but they still may be in network buffers/cache somewhere until they are really written to disk.
>

Hi!

There are certain OS functions that tell it : DO NOT BUFFER THESE DATA, WRITE IMMEDIATELY. That what VFP uses for FLUSH command. This greately increases reliability.
Vlad Grynchyshyn, Project Manager, MCP
vgryn@yahoo.com
ICQ #10709245
The professional level of programmer could be determined by level of stupidity of his/her bugs

It is not appropriate to say that question is "foolish". There could be only foolish answers. Everybody passed period of time when knows nothing about something.
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