Subject | Re: [ib-support] Re: FB/IB and windows XP |
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Author | Helen Borrie |
Post date | 2002-01-17T22:19:05Z |
At 09:46 AM 17-01-02 -0800, you wrote:
H.
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>> >It has been working happily for 6Facetious 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.
>> >months with whatever on win98. But I am being super cautious in
>> >changing to XP and XP compatability test says 'no'
>> > to my ibGuardian.
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>> 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.
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>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.
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>Another ploy by MS to kill IB/FB?
H.
All for Open and Open for All
Firebird Open SQL Database ยท http://firebirdsql.org
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