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Mark Alspaugh
31-Mar-2006, 10:38 AM
Up until a couple of weeks ago my Character mode dataflex applications and
development environment worked fine. Now I am not able to run any thing.
After I have established my environment and launch the application using
DFRUN it acts like it wants to run then returns to the DOS prompt with no
errors. I can however run COnsole mode in 3.2 and it works fine, but the
application I am currently working on is 3.05. I have everything on an
external drive and I tried it on another PC and it works fine. I have
FORMATED my computer and re-installed everything and still doesn't work. I
am wondering if it is the XP updates that have killed it or if my Laptop is
dying a slow death.

The whole worked one day and not the next lead me to think Virus, but I have
Formated and it didn't work. Other DOS applications work, just not
DataFlex.

Has anyone experianced anything like this?

Desperate in Riverside

LasseJ
31-Mar-2006, 04:39 PM
Mark,

Could you please be a little meore specific. What do you mean by "it
doesn't work"? Any error message? Anything?
I have an old app from 2.3 days converted to 3.01 back in the 90s which
rescently was upgraded to a WinXP workstation (from previously W2K). I did
not experience any problems with this. Short: What's happening? Try to
start if from a DOS-prompt instead of a shortcut from your desktop and see
if you get an error message.

/Lars J

"Mark Alspaugh" <alspaugh@earthlink.net> skrev i meddelandet
news:VQab3kNVGHA.5084@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
> Up until a couple of weeks ago my Character mode dataflex applications and
> development environment worked fine. Now I am not able to run any thing.
> After I have established my environment and launch the application using
> DFRUN it acts like it wants to run then returns to the DOS prompt with no
> errors. I can however run COnsole mode in 3.2 and it works fine, but the
> application I am currently working on is 3.05. I have everything on an
> external drive and I tried it on another PC and it works fine. I have
> FORMATED my computer and re-installed everything and still doesn't work.
I
> am wondering if it is the XP updates that have killed it or if my Laptop
is
> dying a slow death.
>
> The whole worked one day and not the next lead me to think Virus, but I
have
> Formated and it didn't work. Other DOS applications work, just not
> DataFlex.
>
> Has anyone experianced anything like this?
>
> Desperate in Riverside
>
>

Mark Alspaugh
1-Apr-2006, 09:33 AM
There where no errors. Either running from the prompt or from a short cut.
Nothing. But I just updated XP again with the latest updates and now it
works. So problem resolved and I do not know why!

Mark

"Lars Jarnhäll" <LasseJ@oasystem.se> wrote in message
news:m4sSnuQVGHA.540@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
> Mark,
>
> Could you please be a little meore specific. What do you mean by "it
> doesn't work"? Any error message? Anything?
> I have an old app from 2.3 days converted to 3.01 back in the 90s which
> rescently was upgraded to a WinXP workstation (from previously W2K). I did
> not experience any problems with this. Short: What's happening? Try to
> start if from a DOS-prompt instead of a shortcut from your desktop and see
> if you get an error message.
>
> /Lars J
>
> "Mark Alspaugh" <alspaugh@earthlink.net> skrev i meddelandet
> news:VQab3kNVGHA.5084@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
>> Up until a couple of weeks ago my Character mode dataflex applications
>> and
>> development environment worked fine. Now I am not able to run any thing.
>> After I have established my environment and launch the application using
>> DFRUN it acts like it wants to run then returns to the DOS prompt with no
>> errors. I can however run COnsole mode in 3.2 and it works fine, but the
>> application I am currently working on is 3.05. I have everything on an
>> external drive and I tried it on another PC and it works fine. I have
>> FORMATED my computer and re-installed everything and still doesn't work.
> I
>> am wondering if it is the XP updates that have killed it or if my Laptop
> is
>> dying a slow death.
>>
>> The whole worked one day and not the next lead me to think Virus, but I
> have
>> Formated and it didn't work. Other DOS applications work, just not
>> DataFlex.
>>
>> Has anyone experianced anything like this?
>>
>> Desperate in Riverside
>>
>>
>
>

Bernhard Mandl
3-Apr-2006, 06:34 AM
Make sure that no environment variable that is used by dfrun (especially
"path") is longer than 255 characters. dfrun will crash immediatly if such
an environment var exists

"Mark Alspaugh" <alspaugh@earthlink.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:n8NvxkZVGHA.1280@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
> There where no errors. Either running from the prompt or from a short
> cut. Nothing. But I just updated XP again with the latest updates and now
> it works. So problem resolved and I do not know why!
>
> Mark
>
> "Lars Jarnhäll" <LasseJ@oasystem.se> wrote in message
> news:m4sSnuQVGHA.540@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
>> Mark,
>>
>> Could you please be a little meore specific. What do you mean by "it
>> doesn't work"? Any error message? Anything?
>> I have an old app from 2.3 days converted to 3.01 back in the 90s which
>> rescently was upgraded to a WinXP workstation (from previously W2K). I
>> did
>> not experience any problems with this. Short: What's happening? Try to
>> start if from a DOS-prompt instead of a shortcut from your desktop and
>> see
>> if you get an error message.
>>
>> /Lars J
>>
>> "Mark Alspaugh" <alspaugh@earthlink.net> skrev i meddelandet
>> news:VQab3kNVGHA.5084@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
>>> Up until a couple of weeks ago my Character mode dataflex applications
>>> and
>>> development environment worked fine. Now I am not able to run any
>>> thing.
>>> After I have established my environment and launch the application using
>>> DFRUN it acts like it wants to run then returns to the DOS prompt with
>>> no
>>> errors. I can however run COnsole mode in 3.2 and it works fine, but
>>> the
>>> application I am currently working on is 3.05. I have everything on an
>>> external drive and I tried it on another PC and it works fine. I have
>>> FORMATED my computer and re-installed everything and still doesn't work.
>> I
>>> am wondering if it is the XP updates that have killed it or if my Laptop
>> is
>>> dying a slow death.
>>>
>>> The whole worked one day and not the next lead me to think Virus, but I
>> have
>>> Formated and it didn't work. Other DOS applications work, just not
>>> DataFlex.
>>>
>>> Has anyone experianced anything like this?
>>>
>>> Desperate in Riverside
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>