Re: FPD 2.6 test for a drive without crashing

2015-10-25 Thread John R. Sowden
Thank you for the fopen idea. I am not using share and I don't know if the drive is mapped or UNC. After playing around with fopen though, I discovered that the error is an OS/network error. What I wanted to do was, if the network drive failed, then fp would default to the local drive,

Re: Unsolicited Email re:VFP

2015-10-25 Thread Alan Bourke
I got these too. I told him to fuck off. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Thu, 22 Oct 2015, at 05:19 PM, Kurt Wendt wrote: > I tried sending this e-mail, but, it didn't go thru - probably caught by > Ed's Spam filters (funny - since this is essentially about SPAM). So -

Re: FPD 2.6 test for a drive without crashing

2015-10-25 Thread Mike Copeland
I'm not sure FPD or Windows see a NAS any differently than any shared drive from any kind of source...another Windows machine, a Linux box, or a Windows server. Mike Copeland Lew Schwartz wrote: The earlier idea on this thread of trapping the error with an on error routine and/or a more

Re: Unsolicited Email re:VFP

2015-10-25 Thread John Weller
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Re: FPD 2.6 test for a drive without crashing

2015-10-25 Thread Lew Schwartz
The earlier idea on this thread of trapping the error with an on error routine and/or a more robust analysis where the fopen() error number is captured might work. I haven't written code like this for years, but I don't remember network drives being a problem. I never worked with NAS drives,