[Metakit] Corrupted database over network - WinNT

[Hector at coollector.com]

> With all due respect, the "serious design flaw" is
> in Windows. Getting that fixed is beyond our control.
> We can only hope that XP or Vista get it right.

With all due respect too, and I didn't mean to offend you, if a Metakit file 
gets corrupted on XP, which is by far the most used OS, I tend to think that 
we can call it a bug... Why play on words ? Until now, that network 
corruption was just a myth (from what I've read on this list), and nowhere 
it is specified that Metakit doesn't work on XP networks, and that people 
can lose their data. This issue has driven me crazy for nearly 2 weeks 
before I could locate when and how the corruption happened. Unfortunately, I 
wasn't smart enough to fix the bug. Of course, if I had fixed the bug, I 
would have contributed the patch, because this kind of patch obviously must 
be included inside Metakit's main code.

About Pat's boss: how honest is this to use an open source library, to 
discover a bug, and to fix it for himself without telling everyone ?

About engaging Jean-Claude( or another developer) to produce the workaround: 
if you know my finances, you'd know it is science-fiction.

All I could do is place a big warning on my site:
DON'T USE THROUGH A NETWORK !!!
DON'T USE THROUGH A NETWORK !!!
DON'T USE THROUGH A NETWORK !!!
DON'T USE THROUGH A NETWORK !!!