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From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Clipper and Compaq DOS
Message-ID: <1991Jan26.042154.24604@pegasus.com>
Date: 26 Jan 91 04:21:54 GMT
References: <20279@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
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In article <20279@hydra.gatech.EDU> jgb@prism.gatech.EDU (James G. Baker) writes:
>I've got a Clipper v5.0 application running on a Compaq 386 with DOS (Compaq)
>v4.0.  I get this error:
>
>  ERROR DBF/1001 Open Error: allparts.dbf (DOS ERROR 5)
>  Called from __dbuse(0)
>   
>Any known anomalies with Compaq DOS with file handles, etc?  My CONFIG.SYS had
>FILES=40 and the dos environment var CLIPPER=F45.  The same exact program ran
>on a good ol' PS/2 m70 running IBM DOS 4.00 with same files, etc. 

James,

I don't have the perfect answer for you but I have had a similar report (the
same DOS error) when accessing a file on an optical drive.  In this particular
example it worked fine on the hard disk just not the optical drive on the
same machine.

I'm about to post that error in a message to Nantucket and I'll include yours
also.  I'll tell you honestly I've used 5.0 longer than a lot of people and
I haven't hit that error yet.  There are definitely problems with the VMM
system which have been addressed in the fix disk currently in beta test.

Hang in there... and post me private mail if you isolate the problem or
just want somebody to complain to... (can you get it to fail with a few
lines of code) ?

tom leylan
ex-Senior Systems Analyst, Nantucket Corporation