Windows XP support

#1

Running btrieve 5.10 in a dos window under windows 9x with out
problems.
15 machines in a MS network. Files exist on a central machine in a
shared directory. This machine is Win98SE.

After migration of some of the stations to XP platform we have begun
to experience corrupted files. The files themselves still reside on
the WIN98se MACHINE.

Files are repairable by unload/reload process with no apparent data
loss. I suspect the corruption is in indexes.

Corruption has occurred intermittently on 3 of the six files.

Any help in diagnostic techniques, fault isolation or other input
would be more than welcome.

Chuck

#2

There may also be some problems with some of the "enhancements" in
Windows XP. The one that springs to mind is a caching file
redirector. It does make reading files faster and writes appear to
finish faster, but they don't make it to the server in a timely
manner.

Probably the delayed server writes causing the issue.
May want to check the MS KB on how to turn that feature off.

Leonard

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:12:12 +0200, Gordon
<grafzerk (AT) bigfoot (DOT) no.spam.please.com> wrote:

Quote:

Chuck,

If unload/reload "repairs" your files, then it would seem Btrieve
functionality is correct. Surprisingly I might add...

For one, Microsoft has equipped XP with a different locking mechanism
then they used in 98. You're probably running into numerous locking
conflicts when addressing the data from both these versions of Windows
at the same time. There are dozens of other incompatibilities, most
likely created on purpose in order to lure you into buying more of
their products. Or did you manage to get Office 2.0 running on XP as
well?

AFAIK Microsoft workstation OS's will only allow 10 remote connections
to it's shares (including printers). If I read you correct, you say
you've got 14 machines trying to connect to a Win98 workstation? Your
issues may be related to this machine dropping network connections it
considers inactive.

sneer> You may want to try to install Linux on that old 33Mhz 486,
also from 1991, and use that as a central machine. This should at
least solve your networking issues you're bound to have.

On 15 Jul 2003 11:41:40 -0700, greg180 (AT) aol (DOT) com (chuck) wrote:

Running btrieve 5.10 in a dos window under windows 9x with out
problems.
15 machines in a MS network. Files exist on a central machine in a
shared directory. This machine is Win98SE.

After migration of some of the stations to XP platform we have begun
to experience corrupted files. The files themselves still reside on
the WIN98se MACHINE.

Files are repairable by unload/reload process with no apparent data
loss. I suspect the corruption is in indexes.

Corruption has occurred intermittently on 3 of the six files.

Any help in diagnostic techniques, fault isolation or other input
would be more than welcome.

Chuck

Gordon Bos
Q-RY Solutions
+31-(0)15-2564035

http://www.q-ry.nl/

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