Microsoft Update Breaks Win XP
I maintain a couple of membership databases written in dBase. They reside on XP and print to a laser printer. This is done through a "net use LPT1: ......." put in "run"
All has worked fine for about a decade - until last week. Trying to write to the laser got the complaint "Can't write to Drive D:" (the optical disk drive). Killing that message gets "Formatted wrong for Drive A:" (the 3.5" floppy drive). Neither made any sense.
The dBase programs could write to a file on drive C: as usual.
The solution was to install NEWER updates. Apparently the XP updates of a couple of weeks ago broke this feature of XP. and was fixed in the latest updates.
GGGRRRrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, we are trying to move from dBase to something more modern.