Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 09:22:12 -000, Mike Millen wrote:
>
> > GM>The strange thing is that for myself and a few others.... the [nnn]
> > GM>problem _first_ showed-up in v1.60b1 (I never had the problem before).
> > GM> (go figure.<g>)
>
> > That's with 4dos, yes?
>
> Nope, that's with OpenDos v7.01
>
> > GM>Since switching to EPPPDD.EXE loaded "high", the problem is gone even
> > GM>with the [nnn]s left as they were.
>
> > Hmmm... I've *always* had epppd loaded high. I don't think I tried
> > loading it low while I was struggling with the mime [140] problem
> > in earlier versions.
>
> Notice the additional "D".... I'm now running the debug version of
> epppd.exe (epppdd.exe)
> In my past attempts to load epppd.exe high, somehow the output was
> never rediected to ppp.log (worked fine if loaded low)
> EPPPDD.EXE redirects into ppp.log with no problem when loaded high.
> (for _me_ that is)<g>
>
> > IME Arachne has *always* seemed a little, err, different when it came
> > to using memory. :) Even now I occasionally get a crash with an X-swap
> > error that I can never seem to replicate.
>
> Same here.
Hi Glenn, Mike;
We are sometime going to have to examine and deal with the re-direction
inconsistencies. Some DOSs may handle re-directions slightly differently.
On the surface, this looks like it can't be a problem, but re-direction
was designed into DOS before Loadhigh.
So, some DOSs may take LH EPPPD.exe >PPP.log as meaning what we want. i.e.
send the output of EPPPD.exe to PPP.log. Others may want to send the
output of Loadhigh to PPP.log. <g>
Even with gold plated and approved IBM PC-DOS, I find that what gets
re-directed depends on what the program is - without any logical basis
that I can see.
e.g.
BOTH of the lines:
LOADHI BUFFERS>nul=15 or LOADHI BUFFERS=15 >nul
will work with QEMM 4.23
That is, 15 Buffers get loaded high and the babble disappears.
but
NEITHER works with QEMM 5.12 or 8.01 where Loadhi apparantly sends
the buffers to the bit bucket !
Other examples available. :-((
Maybe I should make up a re-direction test.bat so we can compare OSs ??
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