kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) (07/07/89)
A couple of days ago, I posted a query about Procomm and DOS 4.0, thinking that my troubles had to do with the OS. A few people have assured me that they are running on 4.0 with no trouble, so that's not it. So I dug just a bit more (I have nothing better to do this late at night), and found that I could get PROCOMM to act normally if I removed the PROCOMM environment variable. Of course then it expects the dialing directory (and maybe other stuff) to be in the current directory. I can arrange for this, but it is not a good permanent solution. The PROCOMM variable is correct as set up, so I can't quite imagine what the trouble is. I tried it with a trailing \ and without. What I get is a message about a failed FMALLOC (Malloc from the far heap?) for the Dial directory, overlaid on the startup screen, and ALT-D just gives me an error message. Does this jog anyone's thinking cap? Can I get a guess as to what the environment variable has to do with heap failure? I would be happy to spring for PROCOMM plus if I knew that would fix the problem, but other folks run with this thing. This leads me to suspect I would have the same trouble with PROCOMM+, and that's too expensive a lesson for me.
mregeste@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM (Mark Regester) (07/14/89)
In article <807@kosman.UUCP> you write: > > ... lines deleted ... > >What I get is a message about a failed FMALLOC (Malloc from the far heap?) >for the Dial directory, overlaid on the startup screen, and ALT-D just >gives me an error message. > >Does this jog anyone's thinking cap? Can I get a guess as to what the >environment variable has to do with heap failure? > I had this problem a few weeks ago. As I remember, we were calling another batch file from autoexec.bat. We had something like "command /c nstart.bat" in autoexec.bat. I moved the contents of nstart.bat into autoexec.bat and the problem went away. You might check for something like this in your autoexec.bat. -- Mark Regester Information Systems & Services, NCR E&M Wichita NCR:654-8340 <M.Regester@Wichita.NCR.COM> (316)636-8340 <{ece-csc,hubcap,gould,rtech}!ncrcae!ncrwic!m.regester> <{sdcsvax,cbatt,dcdwest,nosc.ARPA,ihnp4}!ncr-sd!ncrwic!m.regester>