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From: iesa002@discg1.UUCP (john boris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: dBase III+ bug?
Message-ID: <698@discg1.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 12:49:01 GMT
References: <16834@vax5.CCS.CORNELL.EDU>
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Organization: Defense Industrial Supply Center, Philadelphia, Pa
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From article <16834@vax5.CCS.CORNELL.EDU>, by gpoy@vax5.CCS.CORNELL.EDU:
> 
>    Has anyone had a problem with dBase III+ whereby the computer
> completely freezes during an operation?  I have.  Aparently it
> occurs during a SKIP operation.  It seems to have something to
> do with the index file, since when I reboot the machine (usually
We use DBASE III+ extensively and problems of that sort have cropped up
from time to time. I have found that the event is usually preceded by a
system failure (an aborted reindex,sort or some other function accessing
the file). The only other time we have experienced a failure like this 
was using floppies.
-- 
 John J. Boris,Sr. Defense Industrial Supply Center-DISC-EE         
 Philadelphia,PA (AV)442-6382 COMM (215)697-6382                
 "These statements are my own... And usually I'm not that sane!"      
  "Beam me up Scotty!" :jboris%discg1.uucp@daitc.arpa