Alastair,
Few techies knew that
Norton CrashGuard actually caused many of the crashes it then reported.
I think it was last year that Symantic stopped offering Norton CrashGuard
because of the crashes it caused. Simply remove CrashGuard and you will
be better off.
Ned
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Subject: [RBASE-L] -
Criteria For My Unstableness With R:Base6.5++ Build 1.862
I'm
not sure of the background to your problems but reading between the lines and
guessing I'm assuming that you're changing from Dos to
Windows.
If
that's so then welcome to the club! When I first converted my Dos databases to
Windows I had some or all or more of your problems. Mostly I couldn't explain
them but they slowly went away. I presume that as I tidied up my data,
re-jigged forms and reports, and generally got to know the Windows version
better that I simply corrected them without knowing
it.
That
said, I've reported here before that R:Base for Windows often crashes. Some
days I think that it's the best piece of software in the world but on others
it can be the pits. Razzak always says that if you've written your code
correctly then there's no problem. That may well be true but no program should
bomb out or hang like RBW can. According to Norton CrashGuard, since I last
cleared the statistics - about 6 months ago, RBW has crashed 246 times! The
next nearest is WordPad with 10 and I know why Wordpad gets
upset.
All I
can suggest is that you carefully check all your code and your forms &
reports and ensure that you have the exact syntax that is expected. RBW and
v6.5++ is much less forgiving than earlier and Dos versions. It's a pain at
times but a good thing in the long run to have every i dotted and t crossed
correctly.
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Sent: Saturday,
December 28, 2002 3:44 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] -
Criteria For My Unstableness With R:Base6.5++ Build
1.862
This
is a list of when the system crashes and I have tried this very same system
on three different operating systems:
�
When I go into
some forms and reports even from the >R prompt.
�
When I use or
input an extended where clause with a sort by it crashes every single time
on all three systems.
�
When I print a
report with say 1 row of data after printing a report with 80 rows of
data it crashes on all three systems. But if I print a short report
behind a short report or vice versa it seems to be
stable.
�
I did notice
however, when I clean the database and input new data the system seems to be
more stable but still crashes at times.
�
I do have the same
problem from the >R prompt with the above stated
instances.
R:Base has looked
at this database and my code but seems to cannot duplicate my problem.
I became concern when I had three different systems to incur the same
unstableness at for the most, the same area in
programming.
I
just wanted to know anyone else is experiencing this or has in the
past? Thank you.
