Yes, I misspoke re: version designations (who can keep track -- jack hammer
or not!)

The last time I purchased some workstation engines from DAW for a site
setting up a small network, the product shipped with two CD's in each box,
one labeled 8.1 the other labeled 8.5. The latter had a cautionary label
saying:

"You might be using an application that does not yet support version 8.5.
.... For your convenience, version 8.1 is included in this package on a
separate CD."

Well I had two sites that installed the 8.5 version CD and couldn't run our
apps. They had no problem when using the 8.1 version. I chalked it up to
this file level access security issue that I haven't had time to investigate
and test -- hence my post.

Anyone have any advice that can save me some R&D time?

Bob


"Dave &/or Ryan" <it@kirkfreeport.net> wrote in message
news:00q9015l9uhdbi7rlg6jjubsavfumetfkc@4ax.com...
> Is there some 'version confusion' in your question?
> afaik there's no 8.1, there is 8 sp1 which is versioned as 8.5.
> Similarly 8.2 is 8 sp2 and versioned at 8.6.
> The Pervasive site has details on the file-level security and I
> thought it was optional/not switched on unless you make your file
> actually 8.6 style.
> I could be wrong. There's (re)construction workers crawling all over
> the office and I'm incapable of a train of thought lasting longer than
> the pause between hammer drill blasts.
>
> D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-Dave
>
>
>
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 09:29:56 -0500, "Bob Cergol"
> <rcergol@compuserve.com> wrote:
>
> >Reading through Jim Mulenos "server sizing" thread I just learned that
> >Pervasive is now up to 8.6 and that's what their engineer recommended to

Jim
> >for best performance.
> >
> >The first time one of our sites installed 8.2 versus 8.1 they had file
> >access problems. Version 8.2 introduced the file-level security, i.e. you
> >have to log-in to the database to access the files.
> >
> >I haven't had the time to investigate this and I've simply advised

customers
> >to stick with 8.1 for the time being.
> >
> >Can anyone tell me if there is any specific incompatibility between

Dataflex
> >and versions 8.2 and up? (I' would think not.) Does a move from 8.1 to

8.2
> >or higher require coding changes? -- such as now you have to introduce a
> >database login procedure into all of the applications.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Bob
> >
> >
> >
> >

>