At 09:46 AM 17-01-02 -0800, you wrote:

>> >It has been working happily for 6
>> >months with whatever on win98. But I am being super cautious in
>> >changing to XP and XP compatability test says 'no'
>> > to my ibGuardian.
>>
>> Sorry, I don't know what that indicates. So far, all I've heard of XP is the problem of severe performance degradation due to the SystemRestore thing.
>>
>
>I was emailed by a customer yesterday who said the same thing. They ran the XP compatability test, and it said the Interbase was not compatable. It does work though. I just had to tell him that I didn't know why it said that and assured
>him that it does work.
>
>Another ploy by MS to kill IB/FB?

Facetious comment (?)...(I don't have XP)...maybe the REAL purpose of filelist.xml is as a hit-list of all known file-types for software built with open source...it's read by the compatibility test and, if the user ignores the result of that, they bring in a second line of defence, which is to back up the file every time there is a file i/o.

H.


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