On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Christoph Wollek wrote:
> I am not an expert on Windows and not at all an networks. My question to
> our experts:
> does Metacard run under win NT?
> I developed a standalone with win 98, but a friend told me, under win NT
> the program hung up totally.
> (The standalone gets text from other stacks in the same folder.)
There should be no problem running under NT, and in fact it is much
less likely to cause problems there. Screen and printer driver bugs
are incredibly common on Windows 98 (much more so than on Windows 95
or NT), and we get regular reports of problems displaying images and
even crashing on Windows 98 (the crashes always point to some module
named XXXXX.DRV, which is a Windows driver). Setting acceleration to
its lowest level using the Display control panel eliminates the
problems in all cases we know of. What's even more amazing is that
these bugs occur even in some of the sample apps and games that are
bundled on the Windows 98 installation CD!
And just to get this into the archives, we've had several reports of
problems installing the Starter Kit on Windows 98. In all of these
cases, the problem is that there are too many files in some standard
Windows directory (the root directory, the \Windows directory, or more
commonly the \Windows\Temp directory). You might look out for this if
any of your users report trouble installing your package, or if you
ever have trouble installing some other app on Windows 98.
As for your NT problem, I'd check for some differences in where the
program is installed or what system resources it's accessing. While
not as common as under UNIX, it's not unusual for a program to fail
under NT because it's mucking around with the registry or some system
file or directory that the current user doesn't have permission to
access.
Regards,
Scott
> Thanks to everybody, giving a hint.
> CW
>
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