Thanks for the response David. I have emailed xitech also on these issues and am waiting for a response from them. I really need to get this resolved, because I do not want to distribute DSCAN50x.app (even though you can) because it is not user friendly (even though it does the job if you point to the file locations and tell it what to do). I have to have an app that will go out and scan all tables in our system's known directories and fix or rebuild the tables with little or no user intervention for remote locations. Hence, the need for my own app using the fll/dll and ff_scan(). I fix the tables automatically if they won't open inside the main app, but I need a utility to scan all files and fix if necessary or rebuild. I'm also behind the curve on this as it is a part of a larger project and this one little portion is holding me back.... Not good! I hope you find something out. If I do, I'll post.

Thanks again,
Tracy

>Tracy,
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>Unfortunately, I haven't done any more work on it, nor resolved anything, since I posted this message. Frankly, I was quite disturbed because I did not get a return call, nor a return email from xitech.
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>After I got the dscan50x.app to work I let it go at that. At some point, however, I do need to revisit this. I will let you know if I make any progress, and I would greatly appreciate if you let me know of your progress as well.
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>Thanks.
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>Sorry I couldn't help.
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>>David,
>>Did you ever resolve this issue? I have FoxFix 5.1 and am running into the same problems and some additional ones. As far as the additional problems go: I have 4 tables that ff_scan() returns errors on (but does not appear to be valid errors and it does NOT fix them), however I can open the tables fine in VFP. If I scan them with FoxFix 3.5, they return 0 (no errors). Strange... Trying to figure it out. The tables are type fox2x for compatibility issues. I want to implement the distributable dll with an app so I need to get the ff_scan working right.
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>>Also, if I try to open the tables after running ff_scan on them, I get the 1705 error (file access denied). I have to close the app that runs foxfix completely before I can attempt to recreate or rebuild the files that foxfix has scanned (either returning errors or no errors -doesn't matter). Any ideas on how to get the tables all closed? I've tried flush and fflush() after running ff_scan() on them with no success.
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>>Tracy
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>>>Since I posted this, I have some additional information:
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>>>For some reason, I am not able to get foxfixes ff_scan function to work right. it returns an error code of zero on a table that I know is corrupt.
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>>>But I implemented a function call to 'dscan50x.app', and this is working like a charm. It finds and/or fixes the problems that I can't find with ff_scan() and fixes the problems I can only find, but not fix.
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>>>But I still can't get Foxfix5.exe, via the gui interface, to write the changes to my tables.
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>>>Any ideas?
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>>>TIA
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>>>>I have an email in to Xitech - but since it is late at night there now.. thought I'd try here first..
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>>>>I just got a new version of Foxfix - 5.1. I ran the standalone version to check the integrity of my dbf. Fox fix found errors in the fpt. (However the 'Memo Tab' itself has a green checkmark next to it) But the scan summary tab shows that there were 23 memo pointer errors. The 'messages' tab shows a final status code of '0000..' (Doesn't that indicate that there is no problem?
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>>>>However, the 'error log' tab shows 23 messages indicating memo pointer problems. Clicking the update button at the bottom right takes me straight back to the 'Filename to scan ' dialog box. When i click to scan the file again, it shows the same errors. The dbf and fpt never get updated.
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>>>>What am I doing wrong? Why does the memo tab itself have a green checkmark?
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>>>>I found an 'old version' of foxfix from around 1997. It had a separate memoscan utility. I ran that against my table(s). It found and corrected the memo errors. I'm sure they have improved the product since 1997! not made it worse - so - I must be doing something wrong - need a new build -.
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>>>>Env: win98, don't think there are any file or folder permission issues, etc.
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>>>>Finally, I used the ff_scan function of the foxfix5.dll - it is NOT finding any errors with the file. Again, I am guessing that I am doing something wrong.
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>>>>Any ideas?
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>>>>TIA