>>Hi,
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>>Lately we have been having power outages which caused corruption of fpt files (memo fields, VFP6).
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>>Is there any way, in code, (or other), which I could protect the tables when these conditions occur.?
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>>Thanks,
>>Jonathan
>>Intermagnetics
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>Corruption can be greatly reduced if you issue the FLUSH command immediately after writing any changes to disk.
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>HTH, Hilmar.

The one "gotcha" with FLUSH, if you're running a Novell network, is that it gets progressively slower each time you call it. We ran into this in an app. we were working on last year.