Tue 2003-01-28 18:33, Gerald Miller (1:342/512) wrote to andrew clarke:

 >> Sorry for not answering.  Yup, it crashes!  WIMM flashed some error
 >> message and before I could write it down, EMM386 popped up with a
 >> detection of error #06 in an application at memory address
 >> 00B8:F657.  The machine was locked up, forcing me to do a cold
 >> boot (I was shelled out of the mailer at the time)....

 AC> OK, this sounds more like a problem with DOS4GW to me.  What CPU are
 AC> you using?  Exception #6 is Invalid Opcode, from memory.  Strange.
 AC> WIMM does very little when you run it with the -h switch.

Or it may be a fault in the shell-out (swapping?) code of your mailer...

 AC> What version of DOS are you running it under, and do you have
 AC> SHARE.EXE loaded?

 GM> MS-DOS version 6.22 with jpsoft's 4DOS (version 6.02B) as my command
 GM> processor of choice.  SHARE.EXE is NOT loaded - it causes me endless
 GM> amounts of grief!

I really doubt the problem is in WIMM 2.x.  It ran without problem under
DOS 7.0 (Windows 95B, outside of Windows).  Do you ever use the 32-bit DOS
version of Squish (SQ386.EXE)?  Or tried any other programs that use
DOS4GW.EXE?  While shelled out of your mailer?

SHARE.EXE is normally safe to use, so it's interesting you've got problems
with it.  Although I guess you don't need it unless you're in a
multitasking environment, where you could have more than one program try to
write to your messagebase at the same time, and without SHARE there is a
good chance of file corruption.

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