It is possible, but more likely is that the file has gotten set read-only.
Scenario: code does a "zip command /c blah....." and that shelled command locks up. I've seen instances where the .rb* files get set read-only this way, but only with earlier than 6.5++) versions of R:Base.
Hi Emmitt
Would these things make the files act as if they were read only?
Marc
----- Original Message ----- From: "Emmitt Dove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:29 AM Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: Network questions
> Any number of things involved could be the problem. W98 as the > server? Big suspect. A bad NIC, a bad cable, a bad switch or hub, and so on. > > I can't speak to 6.1 since we never used it. > > I even had a PC with flaky memory that was corrupting a 5.5 DOS database's > file 1. That diagnosis only took about 3 months ... the memory had bits > that were unstable - they might be 1 when they were supposed to be 0, and > the NMI wouldn't detect it. The memory just happened to be in the region > where 5.5 stored its cached copy of file 1. Whenever the system did an > add/update/etc. it would rewrite file 1. The flipped bits would cause, for > instance, a character to show up in position 16 or 17 of a table name when > the table name was only 8 characters. That would then cause the table to > not be found when others went looking for data - the name had changed. I > finally noticed a pattern, figured out that bits were getting flipped, and > went looking for the troubled PC. Replaced the RAM, problem solved. > > Ask the network guy to step back and take a fresh look without assuming the > problem isn't his. > > >I have a user that is blaming RBase for "locking" > >the data base where they can't get into it. > > > >They have 98 as the server and 2000 as the client. > >They are using 6.1, I haven't got the update finished > >for 7.1. > > > >Today they got an error message saying > >"someone else is connected....." but they > >can't access any of the forms.... > > > >Their network guy of course blames the data base > >for locking things up. > > > >I have had a few other offices have this problem > >usually from a crash or whatever and I have them > >use a backup which fixes the problem. > > > >Could this be a RBase issue because 6.1 is too old or > >anything else or is it a Network / Windows problem? > > > >thanks > >Marc > > Emmitt Dove > Manager, DairyPak Business Systems > Blue Ridge Paper Products, Inc. > 40 Lindeman Drive > Trumbull, CT 06611 > (203) 673-2231 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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