does not work on freeBSD but works on linux, and windows
Donn Cave
donn at u.washington.edu
Fri Jul 2 12:23:11 EDT 2004
In article <SY3Fc.84160$rM4.17625 at newssvr29.news.prodigy.com>,
John fabiani <jfabiani at yolo.com> wrote:
...
> When I say corrupt I'm saying the program Foxpro can't open the file.
> In this case the file is data file in the DBF format.
But what "physical" difference do you see in the file? Is it
shorter? Run "cmp" on a bad one and a good version of what
should be the same file ... do differences appear early in the
file, or late? Is the first difference on a block boundary
(divisible by 512?) That's the kind of analysis I'm talking
about.
> Of course it may be that freeBSD requires a different way
> of writing the program but others have reported that the program works
> for different version of freeBSD (but no one has reported that freeBSD
> 4.4 works). If you are willing to help we can talk on the phone and
> discuss it further. Just email at jfabiani at yolo.com. Again thanks
> John
I'm sure someone on this list would be interested in taking
this on for a modest consulting fee. Maybe more if your
consultant has to install his or her own 4.4, but that
shouldn't be too hard (BSDs will happily install on a
single BIOS partition.)
Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu
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