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From: timk@xenitec.uucp (Tim Kuehn)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Major, serious failure in Foxbase v 2.0?
Summary: upgrade! upgrade! rah rah rah!
Keywords: An old bug solved in new software
Message-ID: <1989Aug22.131946.25560@xenitec.uucp>
Date: 22 Aug 89 13:19:46 GMT
Reply-To: timk@xenitec.UUCP (Tim Kuehn)
Organization: Xenitec Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON
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In article <2385@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn) writes:
>
>I'm using Foxbase 2.0 on an AT.  I have a 298K file refs.dbf file with
>895 records and a 100K refs.dbt attachment.  I never had any problems
>before, but now the following commands yield:
>

..problem deleted...

>whereupon it hangs on the disk.  Eventually it says:
>
>	Out of disk
>
>On examining the disk, the file refs.dbt has now grown to fill the disk,
>about 6 MB, and refs.dbf is truncated to about 200K, exactly 592
>records.  The same behavior results under:
>

...other problem with similar results deleted...

>
>Any ideas?
>-- 
>O---------------------------------------------------------------------->
>| Cliff Joslyn, Cybernetician at Large
>| Systems Science, SUNY Binghamton, cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu
>V All the world is biscuit shaped. . .

I used to have a program that did the same thing. However, once my client
upgraded to v2.1 the problem has never happened again. (I do recall I had a 
reasonably quick fix for this this, but it'll happen again - so you'd be best
to just do away with the problem completely and get the most recent rev.)

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