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Subject:Re: netdump and lockdump
Date:Tue, 30 May 2017 08:25:03 -0400
From:"Steven Green" <greens@diamondsg.com>
Newsgroups:pnews.paradox-dos

sent to you on Saturday, but it seems it got blocked cuz of the "dangerous 
attachments" :-)

I'll attach them here, to see if they go thru

and the TRA file opens in Word, I do that all the time..

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Steven Green
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"Michael Kennedy"  wrote in message 
news:592c252b@pnews.thedbcommunity.com...

On 27/05/2017 13:43, Steven Green wrote:
> yeah, it's actually pdoxwin running, but that shouldn't matter.. I figured 
> that changing the file with notepad would break it.. the "dirlock" result 
> was a surprise.. it's definitely not a dirlock :-)
>
> this stupid old laptop, which is about to be replaced, thinks there's an 
> SD card in F:, and I can't delete, uninstall, etc.. that's why I tried 
> changing it.. I'll send a copy of the files to your email.. if you can 
> change F to C, or run them as F on your machine, that would be great

Pleasure...

So far (Mon am - UTC or US!), I've not received any file...

   - Mike


> "Michael Kennedy"  wrote in message 
> news:5928b07b$1@pnews.thedbcommunity.com...
>
> Steve,
>
> It might take me a few shots to recall some useful details...
>
> Probably irrelevant, but are you using PDoxDOS or some version of
> PDoxWin? Or both  ;-)
>
> On 26/05/2017 21:01, Steven Green wrote:
>> client has a growing lock file, on an on-going basis.. the reasons are 
>> understandable and for the moment, unavoidable.. when everyone gets out 
>> of paradox, it goes away, so it's not damaged
>
> This was a very major issue, some decades ago. And now I don't recall
> the causes/solutions. Perhaps Locks are being placed, but not released.
>
>> all the machines are 64-bit, so lockdump and netdump will NOT run on 
>> their machines (16 bit)
>>
>> copied both to my system.. they seem to be making a good net file, I can 
>> always read it with netdump just fine, it's always 13030 bytes, the data 
>> matches what the app says, etc
>
> Sounds perfect.
>
>> here's the issue, Mike :-)  long story, but I can't use the same drive 
>> letter on my machine.. at the command prompt, lockdump throws an 
>> Abort/Retry/Fail cuz it can't find the net file on the correct drive.. so 
>> I edit the lock file, substitute a different drive letter, and save the 
>> file.. then lockdump says "This is a Directory Lock"
>
> Maybe try SUBST to assign the required letter - if that letter is free.
>
> When you change the Drive-letter, make sure you use a "hex" editor - a
> standard editor would likely mess up a hex-editing session. Also, the
> drive-letter might be held in multiple places inside a hex file, perhaps
> as a letter a-z, A-Z, and/or as a number (0=A, or 1=A, or 0=C, or 1=C, 
> etc).
>
> When investigating this issue way-back-when, I wrote some code to
> analyse the lock-files. The only detail I recall now is that the code
> searched for pairs (Lock and Unlock) within the file, and then
> highlighted the unmatched/unreleased locks/entries. I'm sure I have that
> code somewhere, if it might help (I might even have previously sent it
> to you/others!).
>
> Or, if you want, send me the Lockfile, and I'll check if I can access it
> here.
>
> The Directory-Lock message seems wrong - that was/is an option to place
> a lock on a Directory, and thereby avoid having to place/release all the
> individual record/block locks thereafter.
>
>    - Mike
>
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