>3 simple step to regenerate the file read error. I experience a file read error if you do the followings. (p.s. this is nothing to deal with the cable connection)
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>1. Prepare a peer to peer network server using ipx/spx protocol in windows 95.
>2. Start a basic redirector service from the dos/prompt without starting windows 95 and connect to the server.
>net login /y
>net use h: \\yourserver\yourdirectory /y
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>(assume you have a foxpro table locate in . )
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>3. start foxpro for dos and just open the file
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>And lets wait for 10 mins. Be patience, 11 mins to safeguard the server disconnect you. Workaround: Microsoft has acknowledged the problem and released a patch that you CANNOT find it. (From the knowledge base: search by "ipx/spx timeout" and read more about it)


I'm not actually getting disconnected. A couple of users who appear to be at the end of a physical segment are getting low priority on the network and during times of high traffic, packets are lost and foxpro says, "what the...??!!"

I should check the KB to see if MS has acknowledged this as an issue.

Matt McDonnell
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