Gary,
Tried on 2 new Compaq/HP's and also a Dell server. The only commonality
really is they are using Imation floppies and didn't have any other brand to
try but they were using disks frm 3 separate boxes. I know floppy backups
are daft especially for OII data but they have just re-equipped and don't
have a proper backup set up yet.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Sutherland [mailto:gary AT HarrowdenIT DOT co.uk]
Sent: 12 June 2003 18:34
To: ProFox Email List
Subject: Re: [OT] Zipping VFP data.
Alan, there used to be a problem like this many moons ago affecting certain
PS/2 models which had been lobotomised for some bizarre reason and didn't
automatically register a disc change. I think Ctrl-Z would force a re-init
of the drive.
What make is the offending PC? Any chance you could try swapping the floppy
drive from another (known to work) PC?
Best regards
Gary Sutherland
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Bourke" <alan.bourke@qbs.ie>
To: <profox AT leafe DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 5:06 PM
Subject: [OT] Zipping VFP data.
> I've got a weird problem with one of my customers. I've set up a batch
file
> to PKZIP some VFP data files to floppy. The problem is that it fills
> the first disk no problem, then prompts for disk 2. You put disk 2 in
> and it keeps asking for disk 2 ... as if the machine is not
> registering the disk change.
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> Any ideas ... ?
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