Here's another kicker.. opening \\server\printer works, but LPTx doesn't!

You make no sense. Which of the XX ports sharing the port should control the hardware lines? Any? All? What you might want is a proxy, one app to take commands from mulitple sources, queue them, and spit them out. When stuff comes in, who then gets it? the next person to call read, or all of them?

Nope. PRN doesn't work either.

Indeed mine seemed fine for a while. I just had to remove dev studio, and re-install it, and apply service pack 4. Everything is back to normal now.

Try a service pack (or not, see my most recent thread...) I know there were problems with sockets and statically linked MFC, which was supposedly fixed in SP5.

I have SP5 installed for VS6.0. Now, when I build a project that I've been working on for 3 months, it blows up when it is launched outside the debugger. It blows up at lauch time - the debug version gives me a crash address of 0x00000009, which isn't even in my code yet!. If I compile it on a machine without SP5, it works fine. Has anyone else seen this?

Indeed I am a PostgreSQL 'spammer'. I do this because when people think open source database they think MySQL is the flag ship. Indeed it is not. PostgreSQL can compete with Oracle on Features while having respectible speed. It's just the most popular because it's always been an easy install under most platforms. Am I to assume going to assume you prefer the worm-ridden MS SQL server? I think it might be good to mention now that I also think Oracle is good as well, but since this guy was using a MySQL database, it'd be a good assumption he want to stay cheap and free. What do you suggest is a 'real' database?

Movies actually. There were a good number of them in the US un the 80s about that. Movies about surviving the inital blast and life after. Also, we were so close to nuclear war in the Cuban missle crisis. Thank god for alchol. Without it, it would have ended in war. Only recently that Cuba had nukes on the beaches if the US has tried an invasion.

I am very much aware. I was a 3.xx user that was eagerly awaiting the 4.x line to become stable. Still, there are no triggers and programming languages. You have to rely on the app for the logic, and having learned from experice, that is a bad thing. Imagine several clients. You upgrade the ones you know about. You don't upgrade the ones you don't. All hell breaks loose because the old clients are not behaving in the new way. Database inconsistantcy. Database develoges into garbage if not caught soon. Manwhile in a world of triggers, you must merely maintain the same business rules. Upgrade the rules on the server (stored proceedures) and whalla, all clients everywhere are updated. No incosistantcies.

I am speaking for myself. When you're a kid, you don't exactly think rationally. I agree that fretting over things outside my control is a rather futile excercise, but part of being human is not being 100% logical.

MySQL is fast tables - and that is all. No transactions, stored proceedures, referential integrity contraints, triggers or programming languages. Claims of MySQL speed are worthless because as soon as you use transactions (a new feature) it becomes dog-ass slow. I've used both extensively, and until you have formal schooling in databases, you'll never see why you should use PostgreSQL. I don't say that to be mean, but that's exactly how I learned that MySQL is just fast tables, and there's a LOT more to databases than tables.

I'm 26. When I was young, I'd stay up at night because I was scared the Russians would launch a nuclear attack. During your father's presidency, that fear was removed. The US had outspent the Russians, bankrupting the country. We had the money, they didn't. Now under your presidency, I find myslef afraid again. This time it's not the Russians, it's the terrorists. Chem/Bio and to a degree nuclear weapons are on my mind. I thought we no longer had to live in fear, but I was wrong. Does Saddam have chem/bio weapons? Surely. Should he be allowed to have them? No. Is he in violation of UN resolutions? Absolutely. Does he pose an immediate threat to the US or the world's people? No. Sadam, while a defiant person is largely at the mercy of the UN. He won't attack anyone for a long time. North Korea on the other hand is openly defiant, fully nuclear, and the US is within their striking distance. The economy is also in the shitter. I'd much rather worry about the wolved inside our fences and not the ones outside. You say "They tried to kill my daddy." That's really mature. Personal vendentas are not to be carried out while the president. You father took office knowing full well the dangers of being the most powerful man in the world. Yet you push to olbiterate this person. What will be the end result? No more Sadam, but you'll have stirred up a whole hornet's nest. A lot of people hate the US because we meddle to much in the affairs of other countries. In the mean time at home here, you've taken our privacy, and restricted our freedoms. We are almost back the the WWII air raid drills of my parents and grand parents. I image gieger counters will be issued again, but this time for dirty bombs. All for what? So you can get revenge for someone who attempted to kill your "daddy"? I'm sorry Mr. President, but the terrorists are winning. And you're the MVP on their team. They've cause you and congress to take away the things that we hold most dear. Our rights and our freedoms. They are slowly turning us into them, and I want no part of it. I urge you to stop carring out your vendetta, and put the focus where it really belongs. At home on the economy, and on North Korea. Sadam is small potaotes...

Oh what a tangled web we weave when what we use is not Free.

I'm sorry man... You should be using PostgreSQL.

Everyone has their own SQL syntax... You might want to try PostgreSQL[.org] instead. You can use it as a back-end to MS Access, so it should be more compaitble than MySQL. If you're using SQL server, PostgreSQL is a better match for you anyway. (And no, I know of no tools)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/29419.html Oh what a tnagled web we weave, when what we use is not free! Use PostgreSQL (www.postgresql.org) instead! PS. Native Windows port coming soon. In the meantime, you can run it under Cygwin.

What's a quid? www.phpwebhosting.com dues php& mysql. unlimited space and transfer. $10 (US).

Thank you. I got it all working! Now I have a new problem.. When some of the top-level menues are disabled, then re-enabled some time later, they are not correnctly redrawn. They have the white from being diabled, and they aren't updated until the mouse is moved over them. How can I get the whole top-level menu redrawn? (File, Edit, etc.) Thanks again!

This is usually done by cryptographically signing the dll. This too is not fool-proof.

Locks only keep honest people honest.... Remember that!