>>I have several older DOS-only PC's which are running a mission critical FPD app for my company. I have several new PC's running Win95 on which I hope to design a VFP app to access the FPD tables.
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>>What are the issues I need to worry about, so that I do not render the FPD tables unusable by FPD?
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>>Should I create local (or remote) views, or is there any harm in using the FPD tables as "free" tables in the VFP project?
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>>Also, when using FPD and VFP simulaneously to access the same FPD tables, are there complications with regard to record-locking?
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>>Thanks,
>>Joel
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>Joel,
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>Go ahead with local views (we are with FoxPro data). If you have fixed paths to where your FP Dos resides from your VFP DBC, you're lucky. If that's not the case, leave me a note, and I'll tell you a trick.
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>José
Jose, I'd be very interested to know the "trick". Also, thanks for the reply regarding my disappearing view def's. I'll be examining the results of GENDBC this morning.
Best, Joel