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On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:06:25 +0100, teamb@opto-pps.com (Romain Strieff [TeamB]) wrotg:

>In article <36ad5f85.3425423@forums.borland.com>, Robert Lee Pettigrew 
>politely paraphrased ...
>> Romain,
>> 
>> What you're telling me is that VdB can't create its own temp files, so
>> the developers had to use a product that the company doesn't even own
>> any more. That's just great. So how do I get this file created, since
>> I don't have paradox. 
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>You don't need paradox, just as you don't need dbase to create DBF files, 
>Winword, Excel, Winfax, Access and tons of other apps can create and use 
>those, because it's an easy, well-documented way to organize data.
>
>It's completely automatic in the background. The paradox file _format_  
>has all the fieldtypes which the big backend SQL servers have. (money, 
>timestamp, long, BCD etc which DBFs don't have, or not in every level)
>
> So depending on your queries, programs etc, VdB needs to store some 
>records in local files first and so creating paradox files is the obvious 
>solution, since it fits all fileformats no matter what you use or what 
>your DBF table level setting is (3-7). 
>
>Only we dbase types are a bit uncomfortable with it.<BG>
>
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But that's the problem, it may create .db files automatically; however, the error message
complains about "pdoxuser.lck" not found  (which I assume is some sort of locking
mechanism) -- so the . lck file is not being created? What is supposed to create it?
Something apparently has to for it to work.
Robert