Thanks Ankush. I guess the best way is just to convert the DOS app to Windows and move on ASAP. Too bad things are not that simple in my case. Thanks again.
John.
>Hi John:
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>In case of Xbase DOS handling in Windows NT, I come to learn that Windows NT creates a virtual dos machine. If this dos app tries to write on disk sector Windows NT gets angry. And eventually it stops that thread. I come to conclusion that if the xbase app group is been assigned Administrative rights. And we have to assign this shared folder "Full control access". This will reduce corruption.
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>I will be glad to keep you updated about my own learnings about this.
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>Ankush.
It's "my" world. You're just living in it.