Hello all:

I posted this a few days ago on the Network page but I am still searching for answers, thought I'd try here now.

I have a site that receives this message every time they run a LIST command:

"Fatal error writing rows1.vf2 in table DOS, undefined error during a read-write-delete operation."

ROWS1.VF2 is zero bytes, it can be deleted but it comes back. Environment is AREV 3.1 on a 6 station peer-to-peer network (5 NT stations, 1 W95 station) with the NPP and a 5-user LAN Pack installed.

Aaron Kaplan suggested that there might be duplicate station IDs causing this, but the IDs are all unique. He also suggested that something happened to the logical DOS file, but this checks out, too – field 1 is VOLUME and field 2 as RTP53A.

The NT machine that is acting as a non-dedicated server has the AREV application installed on a C drive while all other stations are mapped to G. Could that be it? Also, they do not have a REVPARAM file… should they?

Thanks as always,

Mike O'Neal

Mike,

can you edit other dos files?

i.e. from tcl:

EDIT DOS C:\DOSTEST

blah blah blah

f9

Is the file there?

John Revelation

Thanks for the quick answer, John:

We get the message:

"Fatal error writing C:\DOSTEST in table DOS. Undefined error during Read\Write\Delete operation. OS FILE:5 STATUS"

What does this tell you?

Mike

]can you edit other dos files?

]i.e. from tcl:

]EDIT DOS C:\DOSTEST

]blah blah blah

]f9

]Is the file there?

Have you checked that you have rights to your rollout directory and temporary files? This is where AREV writes the temporary files to view any reports from the system..

Saul Mendoza

Hello Saul:

]Have you checked that you have rights to your rollout directory and ]temporary files? This is where AREV writes the temporary files to ]view any reports from the system..

Yep, thought of that…

Mike

I've placed a response here.

akaplan@sprezzatura.com

Sprezzatura, Inc.

And this happens on the local drive of every machine?

It seems that something is denying all OS writes to C drive, which really shouldn't be happening unless someone has it locked through a share. Can you perform this command on other drives?

EDIT DOS K:\DOSTEST and so forth?

akaplan@sprezzatura.com

Sprezzatura, Inc.

Hello Aaron:

"And this happens on the local drive of every machine?"

We copied the entire app to a local 'C' drive and had the same message, except this time it said "Fatal error writing ROWS2,VF2…" instead of ROWS1.VF2

"It seems that something is denying all OS writes to C drive, which "really shouldn't be happening unless someone has it locked through a "share. Can you perform this command on other drives?"

"EDIT DOS K:\DOSTEST and so forth?\"

We can try that. Here are suggestions from Revelation:

1) your NT workstation is not allowing you to edit dos level files

This checked out O.K., we can create\edit files outside of AREV

]2) AREV's dos BFS is broken (this can be tested by moving the app to ]a different machine and seeing if it will edit a dos file)

Did this, same results.

Aaron, what is the BFS? Is it a system file that I can re-install?

Thanks as always,

Mike O'Neal

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