Apart from problems with Novell, I believe that the typical scenario might be more or less like this:
Open a table. (For simplicity, don't use buffering.)
Do some changes, in one record, or in several. (Don't use FLUSH.) (Don't close the table.)
Pull the plug off your machine.
Note: It is convenient to do these tests on a machine without critical data, or else to have a recent backup.
>Hi All
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>Not so strange a question.
>I want to test table repair software against corrupt VFP tables.
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>Yes, I could use a hex editor and really hose things up. But my goal is to test against tables that are corrupted as nearly as possible as they occur in the field. I need several different types of corruption too, including fpt failures, cdx failures, etc.
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>Does anybody know how to go about doing this?
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>Thanks
>Don Lowrey
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