REV G 2b on Windows 95? (AREV Specific)
At 12 NOV 1997 07:00:56PM Paul Watson wrote:
ARev has the NLM, what about REV G running on Windows 95 over a Netware 4.1 network? It's a SINGLE USER application! Will there be any file corruption problems?
At 13 NOV 1997 02:02AM Chris Vaughan wrote:
We have a lot of Win95 workstations througout our client base of RevG2B application users. (mixture of NT, Novell, Lan Manager X file servers).
The main problem we have is that we cannot get newly purchased Runtime or Developer versions to run without having memory problems on the workstation. It seems that subroutines are not released upon return from execution levels greater that 1.
We find that the old Developer REV.EXE with a size of 76,158 bytes is the only one that works OK.
Strangely, we do not have the problem with NT on the workstation (or Win 3.1, WFW3.11).
As for record locking and GFEs - no worse than other environments.
At 14 NOV 1997 04:07AM Charles Schmidling wrote:
File corruptions? If you plan to have simultaneous access to data from several workstations, you can just about bet on it!!!
You need to purchase the RevG "Bump" disk that upgrades the Rev to a network version - basically activates the LOCKing commands. The single user version sets the commands basically as NULLs.
The bump disk also contains the network drivers for the popular networks of by gone days. I don't know how they'd work on the new stuff. I've been able to get Win95 native (MS-LAN) to work well but I have no Novell experience.
The other trick is your code must incorporate locking logic - its not automatic. The R/DESIGN entry screens perform locking/unlocking but anything you do requires your own checks and locks.
Much luck.
Charles Schmidling
DATASCAN SYSTEMS, Inc.
cbms@juno.com