Subj : Strange error
To   : Tim Parsons
From : Stewart Arnett
Date : Wed Nov 06 2002 09:37 pm

Hello Tim.

02 Nov 02 07:45, you wrote to me:

 TP> Hi Stewart:

 TP> It was Saturday November 02 2002. "Strange error," murmured you to
 TP> Marcus.

 TP> Same version of Portal, but running under DOS and DESQview.

 TP> If I run under plain DOS and use Portal /c to get at it, it works
 TP> fine. I wondered if it might be one of the tweaks that had been used
 TP> to make it more reliable under Windows that was confusing DV - but
 TP> perhaps that should be extended to a concern that it might be
 TP> confusing other multitaskers...?

Now the fun begins, I tried the above [ portal /c] and it works fine ;-)
then I tried [ portal ] from a vanilla DOS session, and it works fine ?

Next I try [ pop ] and run the batch file, it works fine !

Return to the WPS and click the icon and it errors ?????

I take the HD and out and put it back in the old HewPy, plug in the modem and 
try it, Portal works perfectly ! Definately seems to be a hardware relationship 
problem to me, either cpu or memmory, probably because they both run 
considerably faster than the old HewPy 486 dx66.

I am wondering if this part of Portals code was perhaps written in Visual Basic 
at one time and is exhibiting the vb timing error that occurs on some faster 
machines.

Still it doesn't really matter as I find I can run portal /c in a separate DOS 
session while the BBS is up and running and modify the entries in the matrix 
okay.


Stewart

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