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to: DISEN ABELLA
from: RAYMOND PESEK
date: 1997-04-18 18:37:00
subject: Clipper 5.2x and novell 3

DA ->Is there anything special that one needs to know when programming
   ->a multi-user database in Clipper 5.2 for running under a Novell Netware
   ->3.11 environment?
A thing that's "special" about NetWare that could bite you is a problem
when VLMs are used instead of NETX. VLMs parse paths differently and a
path that's set using SET DEFAULT must be perfect, including drive
letter and trailing backslash. The problem shows up when you try to
print. You'll get a DOS error that the program could not create the
file LPT1.PRN (for example).
The workaround is to do this:
SET DEFAULT TO
SET PRINTER TO LPT1
SET DEFAULT TO (cWhereItWas)
rather than just this:
SET PRINTER TO LPT1
Raymond Pesek
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