SSIRCAR@ecs.umass.edu (Sant.) (05/10/91)
Has anyone had problems with SCANV77? When I scan my hard drive, the program hangs on one particular file, SOL.EXE, Window's solitaire program. I don't have problems with running the game and SCAN doesn't have problems with any other file. In order to continue, I have to press 'F' to accept the failure. Does anyone know why this is happening? +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + | Santanu Sircar BITNET: ssircar@umaecs.bitnet | | University of Massachusetts/Amherst INTERNET: ssircar@ecs.umass.edu | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +
icking@gmdzi.uucp (Werner Icking) (05/14/91)
SSIRCAR@ecs.umass.edu (Sant.) writes: >Has anyone had problems with SCANV77? When I scan my hard drive, the >program hangs on one particular file, SOL.EXE, Window's solitaire >program. I don't have problems with running the game and SCAN doesn't >have problems with any other file. In order to continue, I have to >press 'F' to accept the failure. Does anyone know why this is >happening? As far as I have seen, the problem does not depend on the version of SCAN. It depends on running SCAN under Windows in conjunction with SHARE. It seems to me that Windows opens a lot of files and the error occurs if SCAN attempts to open one of these files, too. The problem disappeared on my PC since I replaced loading SHARE by using NOSHARE (Simtel or mirror-sites: <MSDOS.SYSUTL>NOSHARE.ZIP) - -- Werner Icking icking@gmdzi.gmd.de (+49 2241) 14-2443 Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung mbH (GMD) Schloss Birlinghoven, P.O.Box 1240, D-5205 Sankt Augustin 1, FRGermany "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod."
SSIRCAR@ecs.umass.edu (Sant.) (05/15/91)
icking@gmdzi.uucp (Werner Icking) writes: > As far as I have seen, the problem does not depend on the version of SCAN. > It depends on running SCAN under Windows in conjunction with SHARE. > It seems to me that Windows opens a lot of files and the error occurs if > SCAN attempts to open one of these files, too. > > The problem disappeared on my PC since I replaced loading SHARE by using > NOSHARE (Simtel or mirror-sites: <MSDOS.SYSUTL>NOSHARE.ZIP) But I'm running SCAN while I boot up. My system is a 8meg 386-33 w/CACHE and DOS 3.3, so I don't use SHARE. - -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + | Santanu Sircar BITNET: ssircar@umaecs.bitnet | | University of Massachusetts/Amherst INTERNET: ssircar@ecs.umass.edu | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +
mcafee@netcom.COM (McAfee Associates) (05/15/91)
SSIRCAR@ecs.umass.edu (Sant.) writes: >Has anyone had problems with SCANV77? When I scan my hard drive, the >program hangs on one particular file, SOL.EXE, Window's solitaire >program. I don't have problems with running the game and SCAN doesn't >have problems with any other file. In order to continue, I have to >press 'F' to accept the failure. Does anyone know why this is >happening? It sounds like you are exiting to DOS from Windows to run SCAN, and have a file running under Windows. You can either exit Windows and then run SCAN, or shut down the Solitaire program and then run SCAN. Alternatively, you can run SCAN with the /UNATTEND option which will install a critical error handler that will allow SCAN to automatically select "Fail" when it comes across a file in use. I would recommend that if you use the /UNATTEND option, you also use the /REPORT option so that you will have a record of any files that were skipped. Aryeh Goretsky McAfee Associates Technical Support