Thanks for the info Ted!
As previously posted, one implementation idea was to backup/sync
database files.
Another was to improve the speed of a custom application that I have
to support where data is stored centrally (DBF), but the data can be
worked on by the salesforce on their laptops. They do a ton of
off-line work, so there's a lot of custom code written to synch the
record sets between them..
I was hoping that someday we could eliminate a lot of that crap and
greatly improve the transfer speed at the same time.
More or less, every implementation idea I have involves keeping
binary files synchronized with minimal time. The reason for VFP
integration was really so I could have all the great features of VFP
at my disposal in addition to the synch ability. I could also code it
in C++ but that would take me much too long to do.
At 01:40 PM 7/14/2006, you wrote:
On 7/14/06, Paul Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes that's exactly what it does. I was using this feature in PCAW
about 10(?) years ago. Pretty neat. Imagine you have a 20Mb DBF on a
clients site but an older copy stored locally. Takes seconds to apply
the diffs.
Thanks.
So, it's a synchronizer. Let's find out what Steve wants to do with
it, and then we can make some suggestions. In some cases, a VFP
replication tool or a transaction log is the right answer. In others,
rsync.
rsync: http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/features.html
for Windows:
http://www.itefix.no/phpws/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=6&MMN_position=23:23
or http://tinyurl.com/kkd7t
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