Hi. Sure hope someone can give me a clue. Been using this particular app for years, and with dosemu for the last 6 months or so. It's a simple personal inventory manager circa 1992 that appears to be written using Clipper (I have no clue about Clipper), and uses dbase III files (there are .dbf and .ntx files that get written).
A few nights ago, it gulped. The short story is that I'm pretty sure there's some kind of problem related to memory management - when a specific reindexing is done, it starts and then seems to hang; yet other re-indexings go just fine. The issues began occurring under both dosemu (running 1.2.0) and Win2000's DOS (command.com and cmd.exe produced the same hang behaviors). I seem to have fixed it in Win2000 by simply changing the XMS and EMS properties in the cmd.exe PIF to "Auto" (they had been set to explicit sizes), and I'm fairly certain this thing tries to use EMS. When I made the change on the PIF and then did mem in Win2000, my "available DOS memory" increased from about 560K to about 590K, and the thing seems to work again. I'm also almost sure it's this reindexing operation, because after it hangs, I'm left with: Two truncated .ntx files, one exactly 1K in size, the other exactly 2K; A file called "clipsort.tmp", which implies to me the app is trying to run the sort on the specified index, but never gets it done. Is there any way to at least get DOSEMU to tell me how much DOS memory has actually been accorded, similar to mem in windows? My /etc/dosemu.conf is very simple: $_hdimage = "hdimage" $_hogthreshold = (2) And my dosemu config.sys and autoexec.bat are likewise too simple: rem this sets up the redirector to look at the Linux root directory. rem this is probably not a good idea once you have dosemu installed rem device=c:\emufs.sys / DOS=UMB,HIGH FILES=40 LASTDRIVE=I devicehigh=c:\ems.sys --- @echo off echo "Welcome to dosemu 1.2.0!" SET PATH=C:\;C:\DOS;C:\DOS\COMMAND;C:\BUDGET;C:\BATCH;C:\MENU;C:\MSCMOUSE; lredir e: linux\fs lredir d: linux\fs\dosd lredir c: linux\fs\dosc rem gmouse ------------------ Alternatively, if you know of ANY app for linux that does a decent job of hoem or personal inventory, please let me know. thx, jbh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
