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I just saw that Roger is out of the office for a while, so I'll post a question here. I am an old Clipper programmer that is converting some customers to xBase++ and express++. Roger remoted into my first customer location and demonstrated xDot for DBF manipulation. I have since installed xBase and ...

Problem solved… Although I am not sure I understand why. I thought hard about the “access denied” and also did a search for the “lpt1.prn” I mentioned in my earlier message. I was unable to locate lpt1.prn, and am not sure if it is a literal file/folder on the computer. But this made me look in the ...

Thanks for the suggestions Bobby. 1. These are old converted clipper programs. There are about 2500 .prg's that do everything from manufacturing/inventory control through customer service and accounting. The manufacturing side has a lot of reporting, ticket generation, throughout the programs. The p...

Addendum: On a problem computer, I can launch one xBase program, perform a "net use" redirecting lpt1 to a network printer, then successfully launch a second xBase program. Again, this makes me think that the local LPT1 is being held open and locked by the first program. Also, If I initially perform...

Short history: Converted Summer 87 Clipper to xBase++ 2.0. We are running these programs all over the company. Problem: On a very few computers, we are unable to run more than one xBase program at any one time. The issue revolves around a procedure common to ALL our programs called "setup.prg". With...

Richard,

You can probably eliminate the 64-bit vs 32-bit issue. I have this problem on 32-bit Windows 7, and 64-bit Windows 7.