Recent content by mchen2

Rick, Thanks a lot. The Foxpro2.6a environment can be initialized according to the settings in the config.nt and config.fp now. But I also noticed there are one format of temp file as VDM????.tmp didn't go to the directory as expected. My OS is WIN2000. How can I direct those VDM????.tmp to the...

Dave, I didn't realize the files and buffers in config.fp would be ignored. I thought they would modify the config.nt settings. However, I don't believe my config.fp file is initializing the environment at all. For instance, I don't seem to be able to contol the <tmpfiles> directive. And...

Rick, How come my Foxpro2.6a on WIN2K wouldn't excute the config.fp at all? Mchen2

I'd like to add that I assume that when I start Foxpro 2.6 DOS from an Icon or a CMD prompt on Windows 2K machine the config.nt is read first then the config.fp. So, as a test, I set files=15 in the config.nt knowing that indexing would fail. And set files=120 in the config.fp. When I start...

Dear JRB-Bldr, Thank you for your prompt help. I have tried the followings and didn't get what we expected: a. in the DOS Command prompt icon, I used &quot;%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe -cc:\SBT8\CONFIG.FP&quot; b. in the foxpro icon, i used &quot;c:\SBT8\FOXPRO.EXE -cc:\sbt8\config.fp&quot...

How can I make FOXPRO2.6a on a WIN2K station/NW6 server read CONFIG.FP instead of CONFIG.NT?