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From: tac@sei.cmu.edu (Timothy Coddington)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Background Comm pkg that will work with xbase applications-help!!
Keywords: Communications, Foxpro,Xbase
Message-ID: <9825@as0c.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 30 Dec 90 03:40:44 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University (Software Engineering Institute), Pgh, PA
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Hi,
  I hope some of the database developers out there can help.  I need some
  recommendations for comm packages that I can purchase to use with my
  Foxpro application.  I need a reasonably priced software package that can
  be integrated into any of the xbase products.  I've noted several that
  claim to provide interrupt driven file transfers and I do need this, but
  more importantly I need to receive files in the "background" (rx'd data
  going to a file while my xbase application continues to run).  My
  foreground application must be able to do file I/O also.

  I've already purchased a product which can do this but unfortunately
  after leaving the file open for many hours my system locks up.  The
  vendor (CompuSolve) has been actively trying to help me figure why I have 
  been the only user to have this problem.  In the meantime my customer is
  patiently waiting.

  Does anybody in net land have EXPERIENCE with a package that can receive
  a file in the background?

  In addition, consider that maybe the DOS purests are right, that because
  it is impossible to build such a package - there are none to be found.
  How can I put something together from cheap off-the-shelf parts that
  would help me in the interim.  Sooner or later the Can't Do-Impossible-No
  Way-Blood Sucking-DOS Purests will die off :-)

  We can argue about what is "background" some other time.  I would greatly
  appreciate any CONSTRUCTIVE help (suggestions).

   Thanks everyone

   Tim Coddington   tac@sei.cmu.edu  (407)779-3451 (407)768-7470

   ps. I was just kidding about Blood Sucking :-)