Re: Bummer
From: Donald Tees (donald_tees_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 03/30/04
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:09:21 +0000
JerryMouse wrote:
> Facts in the case:
>
> Old DOS Realia COBOL program, only when running under XP, attempts to access
> floppy drive for no apparent reason. Same program does not give a fig about
> the floppy drive under Win9x, Win2k, or WinNT.
>
> Oh well, just an oddity. The old DOS program is "mature" and is being phased
> out. Fuggedaboutit.
>
> Wouldn't you know: One customer gets new Compaq computer, XP installed, and
> the computer doesn't even HAVE a floppy drive.
>
> You guessed it, program barely runs - fifteen seconds between keystrokes,
> three minutes to load, all on a lickety-split computer.
>
> Another of the customer's machines (Win98) networked to the new Compaq still
> runs swell (the database resides on the new, XP, machine).
>
> Does anybody know:
>
> a) What's going on?
> b) A circumvention?
>
> We're going to try adding an antiquated floppy drive to this
> up-to-the-minute computer if we don't get a clue pronto.
>
> Thanks for thinking about this.
>
> Jerry
>
>
Its probably waiting for floppy disk timeouts 99.9% of the time.
Put a drive A: into your config.sys ... a small ram disk. Betcha it
goes like a bat out of hell. Make it a 360K ram disk, and might even
find out what it's doing.
Donald
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