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Re: Am I mistaken, or was .NET originally offered only as a "subscription"?

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I appreciate the help from everyone.

And I am encouraged by the love shown for good old VB6 here!  I am lazy, relatively old, and don't really relish having to learn a new programming language because VB6 is like a comfortable old friend.  I may not be all that great at it, having learned it all myself by trial and error and reading on forums like this, but it's been very productive for me and allowed me to write some rather sophisticated and complex programs. (Even if they're ugly inside).

I always say my programming style is shaped mostly by my lack of knowledge and expertise!  :)



I'll read that KB article and see if it offers any help.

The bizarre thing to me is that while the files in question are "hosted" on a Win 7 64 machine, what matters seems to be the OS of the machine running my VB programs.  If the machine running my VB6 program (which is reading the files) is running XP, there are no problems.  But if the machine running my VB6 program is a Win 7 machine, then the "hosting" machine has these file lock issues.

So something about how XP presents the network file requests or handles the transfers keeps the Win 7 "host" from having problems.  But when my VB6 program runs on a Win 7 machine, and reads those same files from the same Win 7 "host", then the "host" gags for some fairly long time afterwards.

I think you folks are giving me some good clues about this!

I also (just to add to the amusement) am constantly writing to these files from a Win 98 machine running a QuickBasic program that actually does the data gathering (because Win98 allows me to directly access the I/O bus, which I need to do to bit-bang the registers in the data acquisition boards).

The Win98 machine has no problems interacting with the Win 7 "host" except if one of the other Win 7 machines has tried to read one of the files recently.  

Oh, the Joy.  :)

Maybe I need to just install a Win XP machine to act as the "host".  That might actually be just fine and solve all of these file locking problems in one fell swoop.

Thanks again, everyone!

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Am I mistaken, or was .NET originally offered only as a "subscription"? jsigmo@gmail.com - 2014-12-20 11:35 -0800
  Re: Am I mistaken, or was .NET originally offered only as a "subscription"? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2014-12-20 14:40 -0500
    Re: Am I mistaken, or was .NET originally offered only as a "subscription"? jsigmo@gmail.com - 2014-12-20 11:53 -0800
      Re: Am I mistaken, or was .NET originally offered only as a "subscription"? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-12-20 18:32 -0500
      Re: Am I mistaken, or was .NET originally offered only as a "subscription"? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2014-12-20 22:01 -0500
        Re: Am I mistaken, or was .NET originally offered only as a "subscription"? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-12-20 22:08 -0500
          Re: Am I mistaken, or was .NET originally offered only as a "subscription"? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2014-12-20 22:34 -0500
            Re: Am I mistaken, or was .NET originally offered only as a "subscription"? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-12-21 04:46 -0500
        Re: Am I mistaken, or was .NET originally offered only as a "subscription"? jsigmo@gmail.com - 2014-12-21 10:34 -0800
          Re: Am I mistaken, or was .NET originally offered only as a "subscription"? ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-21 18:57 -0600
            Re: Am I mistaken, or was .NET originally offered only as a "subscription"? jsigmo@gmail.com - 2014-12-21 20:52 -0800
              Re: Am I mistaken, or was .NET originally offered only as a "subscription"? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-12-22 01:24 -0500
                Re: Am I mistaken, or was .NET originally offered only as a "subscription"? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-12-22 01:25 -0500
          Re: Am I mistaken, or was .NET originally offered only as a "subscription"? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2014-12-21 18:08 -0500
          Re: Am I mistaken, or was .NET originally offered only as a "subscription"? GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-12-21 19:52 -0500
          Re: Am I mistaken, or was .NET originally offered only as a "subscription"? GS <gesansom@netscape.net> - 2014-12-21 19:51 -0500

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