On 2/18/2011 11:03 AM, Tracy Pearson wrote: > Tina Currie wrote on 2011-02-18: >> Might be worth mentioning that exe is 5.2MB. Big enough to be a drain? >> >> Tina Currie >> www.datahouse.com.au >> >> > > Tina, > > The smallest EXE I have that we've seen troubles with is 9.5 MB. > The answer is probably, "It depends..." > It could be VFP might toss loaded bits of the EXE out off memory to work > with data faster, and load the EXE back when needed. I know our customers > saw "Invalid Seek Offset" error messages when doing normal day to day > processes. They were in the screen earlier, then opened it again to lookup > something and crash. Their network connection failed. It is possible, due to > not having access to the table, the error routine was attempting be loaded > from the EXE still on the network. YMMV.
It's been a number of years, but I believe I used to get that "invalid seek offset" error message when we would run our EXE from the Novell network back in the late 90s. When I introduced our LOADER utility whereby it sync-ed the local files from the LAN repository and ran then from the local PC, we didn't have those problems anymore. The apps were VFP5 and then VFP6 back then. I recall reading an article in FoxPro Advisor written by Stephen Settimi (sp?) which talked about such a loader mechanism. He basically excluded everything except the Main startup program. This works great in an internal office setting where you don't mind the source being available on the end-user machines. -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
