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Watcom error
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08/07/1997 10:25:13
Jerry Tovar
Dana Corporation Dana It
Maumee, Ohio, United States
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00038924
Message ID:
00039084
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35
>I have a few FPW26 exes running on our Novell network. On our Win31 machines, the exes
>run fine.On our Win95 machines, our users sometimes get a "Watcom error" when
>trying to start one of the FPW exes. This error is random and doesn't appear every day.
>
>After a user get a "Watcom Error", the only way they can start the exe is to restart Win95. Of
>course, none of our users like this solution.
>
>We are on a Novell network and all or our users have at least 16-32 megs of memory.
>It doesn't seem to matter what applications the user is running when they get this error.
>
>I run Win95 on my machine and never get this error. Of course I have FPW26 installed on
>my machine, so I tried to copy the "Foxw2600.esl' to some user's \Windows\ directory.
>This didn't seem to help.
>
>We are converting to VFP3 but still need to run some FPW26 exes.
>
>
>Has anyone seen this error message before?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jerryt

Try lowering the amount of memory requested in the config.fpw or
place a MEMLIMIT command in config.fpw to ask for X amount of memory.
Look at the help for foxpro to see how to use the MEMLIMIT command.

Hope this helps.
Bret Hobbs

"We'd have been called juvenile delinquents only our neighborhood couldn't afford a sociologist." Bob Hope
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