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Set Autosave Off / On
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Visual FoxPro
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Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
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00612476
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>Hi!
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>I'd like to know what is the real difference between Set Autosave Off / On.
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>I've read about it in VFP's help and I think OFF and ON is the same thing...
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>Take a look:
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>ON : Specifies that buffers be flushed to disk whenever you exit a READ or return to the Command window.
>OFF: Specifies that buffers be flushed to disk only if five minutes have elapsed since the last flush occurred, and only when you exit a READ or return to the Command window.
>

>So... Both flushed the buffers to the disk when you exit a READ or return to command window. The difference is OFF flushed to disk in intervals of 5 minutes.
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>Someone could explain it better?
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>[]s

According to Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0 it's also possible "that AUTOSAVE ON also flushes buffers as each form is closed, since it does have a data session scoping".
--sb--
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