Re: PACK question

From: Carsten Bonde (bonde)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:37:59 +0200

Myron,

take a look at the "TMPFILES" setting in CONFIG.FPW - it might be the
setting you are looking for. 

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Cheers
Carsten
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"emyron" <myron123@adelphia.invalid> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1rudnZYZY7ibUbrcRVn-jw@adelphia.com...
> I apologize for a long explanation in the following question but I felt it
> was necessary to specify what I have already tried.
> When the PACK command is used for a table, in what directory is the
> temporary table created?  I assumed the temporary table was created in the
> same directory as the original table, but this apparently is not the case.
> To prove it to myself , I placed the table on a floppy disk and filled the
> rest of the disk with dummy files until the space left on the floppy was 0
> bytes.  VFP was started and the default directory was set to the floppy
> disk.  I then USEd the table exclusively and PACKed it.  The message
> indicated the correct amount of records were copied.  When I checked the
> size of the PACKed table, the FPT file was definitely smaller.
>
> I also tried a test where the config.fpw had all temporary file equates
set
> to the floppy disk and the table to be Packed was also on the floppy.  I
> made sure there was just enough room for the temporary files when I ran
VFP
> and opened the table exclusively.  Before running PACK I checked the
> contents of the floppy disk using a Command Prompt window.  The directory
> showed 3 temporary files and the table (DBF, CDX and FPT) files.  It also
> showed the dummy files I had used to fill up the disk and indicated there
> was 0 free bytes.  The PACK was run.  The table was successfully packed.
> Another examination of the floppy showed the 3 temporary files were still
> there (no change in size).  The FPT file was definitely smaller and the
> total amount of free bytes reflected a change in size of the packed FPT.
>
> The question still remains: where is the temporary table created during
> PACK?  I had a thought that it may be in the default WINDOWS\TEMP
directory.
> I have no way of monitoring this directory, so I can't be verify or
disprove
> the hypothesis.
> TIA,
> --E. Myron
>
>
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>
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