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Has anyone had any success getting Btrieve 6.15 for DOS single seat
(btrieve.exe) to work in a DOS box under Windows 95.  We are running the
DOS version of Magic version 5.70 and are having constant Illegal
Operations in Windows.  We can get it to run pretty well if we Restart
Windows in DOS mode.  But we still get pretty constant Error 3's.  I
don't understand this error.  These are stand-alone dos clients.  They
are not connected to a Btrieve server.

Thanks for any help,

Doug Rowland

A Btrieve status 3 indicates the file is not open. THe Btrieve for DOS will
work in Win95 DOS boxes. You jaust have to make sure that the application is
not a protected mode application as well.  Win95 doesn't support multiple
extenders in memory atthe same time.  Hope this helps.

Quote:>Has anyone had any success getting Btrieve 6.15 for DOS single seat
>(btrieve.exe) to work in a DOS box under Windows 95.  We are running the
>DOS version of Magic version 5.70 and are having constant Illegal
>Operations in Windows.  We can get it to run pretty well if we Restart
>Windows in DOS mode.  But we still get pretty constant Error 3's.  I
>don't understand this error.  These are stand-alone dos clients.  They
>are not connected to a Btrieve server.

Error 3 is file not open.  You can get this error if the file is
actually not open, but you are past that point.   We have had this
error if running low on RAM memory and then having the application
overwrite information in the Btrieve buffer.   If it gets conflicting
information, it thinks the file is closed, but really you have
corrupted the buffer.

Check the available RAM by using the MEM command in the DOS box under
Windows 95 and compare that run DOS directly.  I suspect you'll see a
difference.

Just for fun, check if the config.sys and autoexec.bat files load the
CD Rom drivers.   We have found that 75% of the computers installed
still have the DOS CD Rom drivers loaded after Windows 95 is
installed.  You can safely remove these, or at least remark them out,
as Win 95 will access the CD Rom.    This may give you some extra RAM.

Then again, I could be barking up the wrong tree.........

Steve Guidos

Simply is You must create a winstart.bat file in Windows directory, and
place a line to load btrieve.exe in this file. Btrieve must be run before
Windows is running.

Jaro

Have you tried using Supportability?  It comes with the Single Seat Edition.

Supportability searches your system and registry looking for descrepancies.
Older Dlls, missing Dlls, etc...  Don't believe that the 6.15 install gives
you everything you need.

Btieve is nice enough to run without everything it needs.  It'll try to run,
but for the most part you'll wind up with mystery errors.

Good Luck