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by **Mike de Estrad** » Thu, 17 Sep 1998 04:00:00

I had been running Paradox 4.5 in a multi-config system with MS-DOS 6.22 and
Windows for Worgroups 3.11. I ran it under DOS and it worked fine. I now
have a similar multi-config system with the MS-DOS 7.x that comes with
Windows 95, and it refuses to run under MS-DOS 7.x. I have noticed this
problem on two different machines, so it is not machine-dependent. All my
other DOS programs run in DOS mode under MS-DOS 7.x. I start Paradox and
receive the following message at its start screen:

Unexpected Condition: GP 0000 at Paradox:28:1323 -- Leaving Paradox

Then it returns to the DOS prompt with the message still displayed. My
Config.Sys is as follows:

FILES=40
BUFFERS=20,0
STACKS=9,256
LASTDRIVE=E
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE 16384 RAM M9
DEVICEHIGH=C:\UCDIDE.SYS /D:OEMCD001
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\RAMDRIVE.SYS 2048 512 224 /E

Does anyone have a fix or know why this is the case? TIA. Mike.

by **Michael Irwi** » Thu, 17 Sep 1998 04:00:00

you'll probably need more buffers, however, that shouldn't give you this. Things
to check include the parameters you are giving it, as it needs a parameter to
let it handle the extra memory that is now available.

Mike

> I had been running Paradox 4.5 in a multi-config system with MS-DOS 6.22 and
> Windows for Worgroups 3.11. I ran it under DOS and it worked fine. I now
> have a similar multi-config system with the MS-DOS 7.x that comes with
> Windows 95, and it refuses to run under MS-DOS 7.x. I have noticed this
> problem on two different machines, so it is not machine-dependent. All my
> other DOS programs run in DOS mode under MS-DOS 7.x. I start Paradox and
> receive the following message at its start screen:

> Unexpected Condition: GP 0000 at Paradox:28:1323 -- Leaving Paradox

> Then it returns to the DOS prompt with the message still displayed. My
> Config.Sys is as follows:

> FILES=40
> BUFFERS=20,0
> STACKS=9,256
> LASTDRIVE=E
> DOS=HIGH,UMB
> DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
> DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE 16384 RAM M9
> DEVICEHIGH=C:\UCDIDE.SYS /D:OEMCD001
> DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\RAMDRIVE.SYS 2048 512 224 /E

> Does anyone have a fix or know why this is the case? TIA. Mike.

--
Mike Irwin
[Volunteer CTech Sysop, not a Corel employee
Please post enquiries and responses to the Corel newsgroups (cnews.corel.ca).]

by **Steve Urba** » Fri, 18 Sep 1998 04:00:00

On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 23:42:56 -0400, Michael Irwin

>you'll probably need more buffers, however, that shouldn't give you this. Things
>to check include the parameters you are giving it, as it needs a parameter to
>let it handle the extra memory that is now available.

>Mike

You do not need that many buffers if you let W95 diskcache manage your
files.
I used Ncache2 (DOS) for years with 10 buffers with Paradox.

This might be * on TO MUCH memory (>16M)

Steve U

Quote:
>> I had been running Paradox 4.5 in a multi-config system with MS-DOS 6.22 and
>> Windows for Worgroups 3.11. I ran it under DOS and it worked fine. I now
>> have a similar multi-config system with the MS-DOS 7.x that comes with
>> Windows 95, and it refuses to run under MS-DOS 7.x. I have noticed this
>> problem on two different machines, so it is not machine-dependent. All my
>> other DOS programs run in DOS mode under MS-DOS 7.x. I start Paradox and
>> receive the following message at its start screen:

>> Unexpected Condition: GP 0000 at Paradox:28:1323 -- Leaving Paradox

>> Then it returns to the DOS prompt with the message still displayed. My
>> Config.Sys is as follows:

>> FILES=40
>> BUFFERS=20,0
>> STACKS=9,256
>> LASTDRIVE=E
>> DOS=HIGH,UMB
>> DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
>> DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE 16384 RAM M9
>> DEVICEHIGH=C:\UCDIDE.SYS /D:OEMCD001
>> DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\RAMDRIVE.SYS 2048 512 224 /E

>> Does anyone have a fix or know why this is the case? TIA. Mike.

>--
>Mike Irwin
>[Volunteer CTech Sysop, not a Corel employee
>Please post enquiries and responses to the Corel newsgroups (cnews.corel.ca).]

by **Steve Gree** » Fri, 18 Sep 1998 04:00:00

> Unexpected Condition: GP 0000 at Paradox:28:1323 -- Leaving
> Paradox

On any machine with over 16 meg of memory, you need to use the -extk
#### switch on the pdox command line, where #### is 16000 or less

--
Steve Green
Corel CTech - Paradox
Diamond Software Group, Inc.
Waldorf, Maryland USA

by **Mike de Estrad** » Fri, 18 Sep 1998 04:00:00

Yes, thank you all. I used the -extk 16000 switch on the command line, and
that fixed it. My new Windows 95 machine has 64 Mb of RAM, and it didn't
realize this was a problem, since my old DOS 6.22 / Windows 3.11 machine
only had 16 Mb.

>> Unexpected Condition: GP 0000 at Paradox:28:1323 -- Leaving
>> Paradox

>On any machine with over 16 meg of memory, you need to use the -extk
>#### switch on the pdox command line, where #### is 16000 or less

>--
>Steve Green
>Corel CTech - Paradox
>Diamond Software Group, Inc.
>Waldorf, Maryland USA

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