joep@tnosoes.UUCP (Joep Mathijssen) (10/13/89)
First I thought it was because of a program I wrote using lots of
'malloc'/'free'-s. But then I found a very simple sequence of
actions leading to the same 'nice' dialogbox:
"NOT ENOUGH MEMORY TO LOAD THIS APPLICATION"
(or something like that)
Example:
I have, for example, the following directory-structure on F:
DIR1
FILE1.1
FILE1.2 ...
DIR2
FILE2.1
FILE2.2 ...
DIR3
FILE3.1
FILE3.2 ...
* I double-click on DIR1 and I see FILE1.1 and FILE1.2
* I go UP and double-click on DIR2 and I see FILE2.1 and FILE2.2
* I go up again
* NOW: do a SHOWINFO on drive F: getting some info.
* I double-click on DIR1 and I see FILE1.1 and FILE1.2
* I go UP and double-click on DIR2 and I see FILE2.1 and FILE2.2
? Going up and double-click on DIR3 and I SEE: "O BYTES O FILES" !!!!!!!
? AND: trying to start an application.... right... OUT OF MEM...
* RESET, dclick of DIR3 and there are my files again.
It looks like that any directory I dont open is empty after a showinfo!
No matter how hard I click on a dir the computer won't even read
something from disk. Thinking that some utility was the cause of the
problems, I removed them all (thus FILEFIX.ACC TURBO_ST etc etc), but
it stays the same.
So or if have some VIRUS or my harddisk is a little disturbed. I think
it is the last option. Somebody told me that using TURBODOS can cause
trouble with your harddisk! IT THAT SO!
Somebody tell me what went wrong.
Joep Mathijssen
joep@tnosoes.uucp
mcvax.cwi.nl!tnosoes!joep
wallace@oldtmr.dec.com (Ray Wallace) (10/14/89)
In article <495@tnosoes.UUCP>, joep@tnosoes.UUCP (Joep Mathijssen) writes... >? Going up and double-click on DIR3 and I SEE: "O BYTES O FILES" !!!!!!! Are you running FOLDRXXX.PRG in your auto folder? If not you may be seeing the 40 folder problem. >it is the last option. Somebody told me that using TURBODOS can cause >trouble with your harddisk! IT THAT SO! If I recall TURBODOS is a disk cacheing program, in which case it could possibly cause this problem, though more likly to on a floppy drive than on a hard drive (non-removable). --- Ray Wallace (INTERNET,UUCP) wallace@oldtmr.enet.dec.com (UUCP) ...!decwrl!oldtmr.enet!wallace (INTERNET) wallace%oldtmr.enet@decwrl.dec.com ---