>>Well this ordeal is over now, and once I finally got the app to work I think I now see what the real problem is, so I'll toss it out for any who are interested.
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>>With 2.6, any drive thats is 2.1 GB or smaller is seen by FPW just fine. SYS(2020) gives you the correct default disk size (2147450880 bytes). But if your drive is larger than 2.1 GB, SYS(2020) defaults to like 1 GB (1023932928 bytes), regardless of how big the drive is. Yesterday I was looking at this 1 GB number and reading it as 10 GB unfortunately. (smacks head)
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>>This AT&T Billing Edge app needs to pull in a day's file from CD, do trending analysis, mormalization, and whatnot, then delete the file it took from the CD. Since I work for a telecommunications company, a "day's worth of call records" for us has grown larger than 1 GB (1.75 for July 31 file) Before the app moves the file over, it must be using this SYS(2020) to determine if there is enough space. So with a 4 GB drive with 3.5 GB available, FPW was only allowing the app to see the 1 GB default and this of course was smaller than the day's file.
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>>Once I gave in and reformatted and set a partition to split my 4 GB drive in half, the app was able to see the full 2 GB disk size and went about its business of copying in file, etc.
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>>Thank you everybody, this was weird but its over. And Barbara came to my rescue with a virtual beer & pizza! :)
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>First of all, a doff of the derby to you for completing things on time. Second, I still think that AT&T should chomp a chapeau for telling you that FPW couldn't see past a gig. Not true in all circumstances.
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>I think that the reason FPW interprets anything over 2.1GB as being 1 GB is that anything over 2.1GB comes back for the ROM BIOS with bit 31 set. FPW must see that and, since you can't have a negative amount of disk space, returns 1 GB as the a default. Anyway, that's my guess. Fortunately, VFP 5 sees the correct amount of diskspace for 2.1+ hard drives.
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>One concern I'd have is that if files are already approaching FoxPro's limit, what does dear old AT&T plan to do about it when and if they start exceeding it? I hope this thought doesn't put a damper on your weekend.
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>And speaking of weekends, I hope you have a good real (not virtual) weekend.
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>George


Thanks George, I'm counting on a good weekend! And I place a called to AT&T this morning about approaching the limit. Their response was a VFP version of Billing Edge is slated for release in February.... needless to say since I got better things to rewrite myself I have all my fingers crossed our call records dont grow too fast!

Keep smiling & much Thanks for your input!