I'm working on a very large and very cranky billing system written in
Foxpro 2.5 for DOS. Our users are getting a "too many reads in
effect" error. I'm trying to run the application in debug mode to see
where exactly the reads need to be cleared, but the error doesn't
occur in debug mode. There are quite a few posts about the "too many
reads" error, but has anybody had the problem of the error not
occuring in debug? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

First, seriously consider upgrading this to VFP - you are ~7 major version upgrades behind! (I don't suppose you are actually running under DOS 5.0 are you?)

When I was working on FP 2.x applications, this kind of problem was often due to firing up screens with ON KEY LABELS where the hardware had sticky keys and it "fired up" too many copies before any checking code could catch the problem.

Rick

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