[RBASE-L] - Criteria For My Unstableness With R:Base6.5++ Build 1.862

[Alastair Burr]

Ben,   I'm not sure of the background to your problems but reading between the lines and guessing I'm assuming that you're changing from Dos to Windows.   If that's so then welcome to the club! When I first converted my Dos databases to Windows I had some or all or more of your problems. Mostly I couldn't explain them but they slowly went away. I presume that as I tidied up my data, re-jigged forms and reports, and generally got to know the Windows version better that I simply corrected them without knowing it.   That said, I've reported here before that R:Base for Windows often crashes. Some days I think that it's the best piece of software in the world but on others it can be the pits. Razzak always says that if you've written your code correctly then there's no problem. That may well be true but no program should bomb out or hang like RBW can. According to Norton CrashGuard, since I last cleared the statistics - about 6 months ago, RBW has crashed 246 times! The next nearest is WordPad with 10 and I know why Wordpad gets upset.   All I can suggest is that you carefully check all your code and your forms & reports and ensure that you have the exact syntax that is expected. RBW and v6.5++ is much less forgiving than earlier and Dos versions. It's a pain at times but a good thing in the long run to have every i dotted and t crossed correctly.   Good luck, Regards, Alastair.     ----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Strickland To: RBASE-L Mailing List Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 3:44 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Criteria For My Unstableness With R:Base6.5++ Build 1.862 This is a list of when the system crashes and I have tried this very same system on three different operating systems:   When I go into some forms and reports even from the >R prompt. When I use or input an extended where clause with a sort by it crashes every single time on all three systems. When I print a report with say 1 row of data after printing a report with 80 rows of data it crashes on all three systems.  But if I print a short report behind a short report or vice versa it seems to be stable. I did notice however, when I clean the database and input new data the system seems to be more stable but still crashes at times. I do have the same problem from the >R prompt with the above stated instances. R:Base has looked at this database and my code but seems to cannot duplicate my problem.  I became concern when I had three different systems to incur the same unstableness at for the most, the same area in programming.   I just wanted to know anyone else is experiencing this or has in the past?  Thank you.   Benjamin Strickland