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    floppy drive access

    a4v70 does a seek to the floppy drive when it loads and i think that might be a factor in my not being able to run a4 from a citrix desktop.

    is anyone running a4v70 from within a citrix client? if so, was it necessary to adjust citrix or a4v70 settings to make it work?

    is anyone aware of a way to keep a4v70 from seeking to the floppy drive as it loads? a command line option perhaps?

    does a4 tech support monitor this forum?

    questions, questions, ... so many questions. thanks, ..

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    RE: floppy drive access

    Mark:

    We are experiencing similar problems on Win2k. Are you using an NT Citrix client? Or Win2000? We are also having trouble getting the program to retain its color settings. We opened a help incident, but have yet to get this resolved (we closed the incident...seemed like it opened a can of worms). Please let me know if you hear anything, and I'll do the same for you.

    Dennis Jones

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      #3
      RE: floppy drive access

      hi dennis. it's a win2k citrix client and if it can't be made to work, alpha 4 will be the only non-functioning app on my desktop. that it might be caused by a floppy disk seek in this this multi-gig firewired age is quite bizarre.

      as for your color settings, are you running alpha 4 in windows mode? as i recall, windows mode limits colors in dos-based apps and your vga colors are being expressed in ega terms (or something to that effect).

      thanks for your reply. .. mark davidson

      Dennis Jones wrote:
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      We are experiencing similar problems on Win2k. Are you using an NT Citrix client? Or Win2000? We are also having trouble getting the program to retain its color settings. We opened a help incident, but have yet to get this resolved (we closed the incident...seemed like it opened a can of worms). Please let me know if you hear anything, and I'll do the same for you.

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        #4
        RE: floppy drive access

        Mark,

        It's been a while since I worked with Alpha Four, so take this with a large measure of salt.

        I think Alpha Four keeps a 'Recent Files List' in the registry. The list is used to make it easy for the user to open a database that was recently used. The list is limited in number (10 ?). You might check the registry to see if such a list is present and if so, to determine if any refer to databases located on the floppy drive. An alternative would be to open and close enough other databases (from the hard drive only) so that the floppy drive entry eventually rolls off the list.

        --tom

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          #5
          RE: floppy drive access

          When I open Alpha 4v7, I also get the attempt to access the floppy drive. I'm running it on Windows XP Professional. I tried your suggestion to look at Recent Files but did not find any reference to the floppy drive. Perhaps I am not looking in the right place. Would you mind explaining further?

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            #6
            RE: floppy drive access

            Unfortunately, we haven't had any luck with registry entries. I can't understand why this is happening, as we have never run Alpha from disk or in any way had it associated with a disk. Don't understand why it would build an association on its own?

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              #7
              RE: floppy drive access

              I run Alpha4v7 on Win2K server with 4 clients running win2k pro. I previously ran Alpha4v6 on the same setup. On both versions of Alpha, it not only tries to read the floppy drive while loading, it reads the floppy each time you choose a menu item in an application. This slows the system down greatly. I have disabled my floppy drives on all machines in the bios to get around it. I do have to re-boot and enable the floppy drive in order to use it but that doesn't happen often for me. I have never found another way around this over the last few years. I have never run Alpha from the floppy drive or opened any files from there. If anyone has any insight into this, I would love to hear it. Thanks
              Arlene Stoppe

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                #8
                RE: floppy drive access

                We are also seeing problems with the colors not being retained. Have you seen this also?

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                  #9
                  RE: floppy drive access

                  When you start AlphaFour it �looks around �at the computer�s environment.
                  Don�t forget AlphaFour = DOS. When you are at the main menu and select Choose, Open, (with the up-arrow) you can �walk� through the just discovered whole system. You �must� be able to open a file on an other drive.e.g. A:\ Why not, if you want?
                  You don�t like it, you don�t need it and you don�t wat it. But you can!
                  When running an application, you open a startup .dbf/.set and that�s why AlphaFour looks around again. It checks everything at the run moment. You can create a fuzzy application. Try to make one. No problem. But you can�t run it. Oh, good old and ever frustrating DOS. To disable a drive is making DOS blind. That�s the way Dos-Life is�

                  Congratulations!

                  Ton Spies
                  Most things are simple but unfortunately only after the first time

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                    #10
                    RE: floppy drive access

                    Thanks for the analysis...however, because an application "can use" DOS, does that mean it "should use" DOS?

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                      #11
                      RE: floppy drive access

                      Hi Dennis,

                      It ONLY can work with DOS. That�s why Alphasoftware creates a DOS-environment while starting AlphaFour under Windows. But the fun is that they also made connections to Windows. Therefore also the Winagent is started. However I am not technical at all, I can understand the great trick Alpha Software made for you to run AlphaFour under Windows and let you use your own (Win)printers. AlphaSoftware let you drive with a locomotive on a highway ! Just because you like the locomotive. Please visit the conference and you�ll see the possibilities of better use of the highway.

                      Ton
                      Most things are simple but unfortunately only after the first time

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                        #12
                        RE: floppy drive access

                        Initially I noticed some color changes but they were minor variations of the same color, ususally darker. I have not seen much in the way of color changes other than that, however, I am in the process of creating a tabbed subform and it seems the default background cursor color while in the change mode defaults to cyan. I you want the text or background to be cyan, you lose your cursor display and therefore your place if you are on a field that cannot be edited.

                        As to the floppy drive read problem, I have several other dos based programs running on my Win2k network and none of them access the floppy drive anywhere in the programs when you use them. This does seem to be an Alpha problem only.

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                          #13
                          Searches floppy drive using Win XP Pro

                          Has there ever been a resolution to this problem? I just replaced my hard drive and did a clean install if Win XP Pro. I then installed A4V8 w/fax. Now, when A4V8 starts up and when I open a database, it searches the floppy drive. It never did this under Win 98SE. I have never saved a database to floppy. I have read many posts about this but no one seems to have the answer. TIA.

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                            #14
                            Any luck finding a solution? I just dove into my first experience with A4V8 & XP...floppy access is causing huge delays.

                            Thanks,
                            Mike
                            Thank you,
                            Mike Konoff

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                              #15
                              I turned off the floppy drive as another user suggested. The floppy drive does not activate anymore. However, it seems that the delays in A4 are still present making me think that certain activity in A4 is still seeking to access the floppy drive, but it doesn't activate because it's been turned off.

                              Any ideas Alpha???

                              Mike
                              Thank you,
                              Mike Konoff

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