Subj : Files on LAN.
To   : mark lewis
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Fri Jul 09 2004 04:14 pm

Hello Mark,

    Responding to a post in the LAN area:
    On Thursday July 08 2004 at 15:01,
    Mark Lewis [1:3634/12] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about: Files on LAN.

 GM>> G:\AE04F89B.000 appears to be a randomly generated file
 GM>> name....  Every time I try to run the FrontDoor BTM (when
 GM>> SHARE is loaded via config.sys), the BTM halts and the file
 GM>> name is always different.  It is almost as if SHARE doesn't
 GM>> agree with / like the 4DOS TEE command. ???

 ML> nah, i think that Dan Egli hit the nail on the head and that it is
 ML> 4DOS' swapfile...

=== Cut Begin: 4DOS.INI ===
Environment=1536
EnvFree=128
Swapping=EMS, XMS, g:\
  ;I will change the above line to the following...
;     Swapping=EMS, XMS, None
  ;I have the following line commented out.  What is your recommendation?
; SwapReopen=YES
  ;[NO] Reopen swap file if it is closed; Set to `Yes' to enable reopening
  ;of the 4DOS swap file if it is closed by another program (Novell Netware
  ;drives). If an application or network generates reproducible errors
  ;related to the 4DOS swap file (for example "Swap file seek failed" or
  ;similar errors).
UniqueSwapName=YES
  ;I will change the above line to the following...
;     UniqueSwapName=NO
[Secondary]
  ;Set secondaries shell directives
Swapping=XMS, EMS, None
=== Cut End:   4DOS.INI ===

Of course, there are other commands within the INI file, but the above is
relevant to what we are discussing.

[ ...snip... ]

 GM>> I suppose I could loose the "| tee /a %ramd:\x00.log" part in
 GM>> that line...

 ML> i feel that that's not the problem... i'm more inclined to look to
 ML> your 4DOS ini file and see the swapping settings in there as well as
 ML> what uniqueswapname is set to...

I made the modifications to the 4DOS.INI file, and I will put

    Install=C:\Dos\SHARE.EXE /f:4096 /l:25

back in the config.sys file, reboot and see how FrontDoor does with these
changes.

But, if SHARE is not really needed for WfW 3.11 (because it is loading
"device=vshare.386"), then, what's the point in putting SHARE in the config
file?  To see if my FrontDoor BTM file hangs the system, again?

 GM>> Do you know if SHARE will handle pipes (as in "|")?

 ML> yes, it has not problems with them at all... as long as they are not
 ML> open in a restricted mode ;)

I can't see that echoing a command to the screen _AND_ piping it to a log
file would be a restricted mode...  Why would jpsoft do that when they know
that some clients would use SHARE?

           Cheers ... Gerald

.... A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic.
--- GoldED+/DPMI32 v1.1.5-040330 [msg of July 09, 2004]
 * Origin: An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priest. (1:342/512)

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