problems in XP with 3.12 (AREV Specific)
At 12 DEC 2003 11:01:18AM Ryan Montie wrote:
I have mostly win98 pc's on my 2000 small business server running the linear hash client. I have one xp machine just to make sure I can run XP. I have edited the config.nt file in the windows\system32 directory to make sure it has files=250, and I have made sure EMS is enabled. When I bring up a command window and type who, it shows that I have EM memory. However, when I try to do things, sometimes with large records, sometimes not, the program will lock up. It will hang and then by the time I get there, AREV has closed. There is also a sporadic problem of large print jobs not finishing, but again, this seems to happen at random. Am I missing something? Does anyone have any insight? Thank you.
At 12 DEC 2003 12:12PM Don Miller - C3 Inc. wrote:
Are you limiting EMS in the shortcut/PIF to 4096? Also, are you starting it from a Batch File? You might need to check Default.PIF in that case.
Don M.
At 12 DEC 2003 04:07PM Ryan Montie wrote:
I have 4096 in the shortcut. I also tried working with a batch file and it seemed to make no difference.
At 12 DEC 2003 06:24PM Richard Bright wrote:
Just to confirm this … your CONFIG.NT will contain the lines -
dos=high, umb
device=%SystemRoot%\system32\himem.sys
files=250
My Shortcut contains the line -
C:\Software\AREV31\AREV.EXE /4096 /M4096
(the last parameter set is overkill - not needed)
My stats in WHO show -
EM Used 385,024
EM Allocated 4,194,304
Environment WinXP (with all patches etc) in Novell 4.83SP1 shell.
Mmm .. make sure that your path_to_Arev contains no fold names exceeding 8 char or spaces. Might want to check driver.
At 17 DEC 2003 03:43PM Ryan Montie wrote:
I just added both of those switches (the /4096 and the /m4096) to the PIF and it looks like this has cleared up the problem. Thanks guys.