Tom,
I'll defer to your expertise and consider it so on my end as well; thanks
for taking the time to debug it.
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote:
> Don,
>
> in my opinion this is a SHELL bug.
>
> after executing a program (being it command.com or dataperfect), shell
> does some 'cleanup' code.
>
> it simply thinks that all (MZ) memory blocks above SHELL.EXE are leftovers
> from external execution, and calls DOSfree(). if they are leftover
> PSPs, the potential environment at psp:[2c] is also freed.
>
>
>
> now freedos command.com loads it's own environment as high as
> possible; usually at around 9F9F:0.
>
> when SHELL executes an external program, this environment gets freed,
> and soon after trashed.
>
>
> SHELL bug. case closed.
>
> Tom
>
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> am 6. Juni 2016 um 12:42 schrieben Sie:
>
> >>So "all my path variables are intact" means there is probably a memory
> >>corruption issue somewhere??
>
> > Since this happens on every PC (7 total) that is unlikely; and
> > this does not happen with the regular DOSes.
>
> > I am now using a menu (PowerMenu by Brown Bag Software) with the
> > %WPSHELL%/C command and our current FreeCOM which is working well.
>
> >>You mean "SET" within FDCONFIG.SYS??
> >
> > I have a MENU selection in FDCONFIG.SYS pointing to an IF
> > "%config%" option in AUTOEXEC.BAT which loads my PowerMenu which
> > takes over from there, this is the "cleanest" way of resolving the issue
> that I have found.
>
> >>But yes, FreeCOM has various bugs and needs to be cleaned up and >fixed
> >>(eventually), but so far nobody has stepped up to do it.
>
>
> > Yeah, we need to prioritize that for 2.0.
>
> >
>
>
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>
> > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 4:31 AM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 4:34 AM, Don Flowers <donr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> UPDATE:
> >> So after three or four loads of shell.exe per session, the strings
> error showed up again (Freecom 0.84)
> >
> > Even when using "/MSG /P"? So what is the implication, that there's a
> > memory leak in FreeCOM somewhere? I wouldn't be too surprised.
> >
> >> and Freecom 0.80 has some issues (2GB max shown on HD, OGN not
> recognized)
> >
> > Testing an old release for comparison? Why not test 0.82pl3 from SF.net?
> >
> >
> >
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos/files/FreeCOM/082pl3%20%28use%20xmsswap%20for%20386%2B%20PC%29/
> >
> > But yes, FreeCOM has various bugs and needs to be cleaned up and fixed
> > (eventually), but so far nobody has stepped up to do it.
> >
> >> I discovered one other alternative that seems to be working - I set a
> >> %config% variable (SET WPSHELL=C:\DP23\SHELL.EXE),
> >
> > You mean "SET" within FDCONFIG.SYS??
> >
> >> then %WPSHELL% /C;
> >> following that I execute a batch file with the same command and the
> shell
> >> loads as it should and on exit all my path variables are intact with no
> >> strings error messages.
> >
> > So "all my path variables are intact" means there is probably a memory
> > corruption issue somewhere??
> >
> >
> >> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Don Flowers <donr...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > So /MSG seems to work, more testing needed to be sure, What does
> this
> >>> > switch
> >>> > do, (besides help me of course)?
> >>>
> >>> http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/command.htm
> >>>
> >>> "/MSG Stores all error messages in memory (requires /P as
> well)."
> >
> >
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