Re: cobol woes
From: Jack Sleight (jacksleight_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/28/04
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Date: 27 Jul 2004 15:00:22 -0700
I think Calvin has left the building.
Jack
pvieira@emporsoft.pt (Paulo Vieira) wrote in message news:<b5b8d7c7.0407270017.653f15f2@posting.google.com>...
> paxsonc001@hawaii.rr.com (Calvin) wrote in message news:<48aee437.0407231652.6c91e86f@posting.google.com>...
> > i work at a small school and we have a computer lab setup that we use
> > to teach medical computing. we were running a program called medisoft
> > that was written in cobol on our old windows 98 machines. we recently
> > upgraded to new computers with winxp. the problem is that the old
> > software will not run on these computers. the program terminates with
> > "main program load failure" what is the cause and what are the
> > possible solutions?
> >
> > Mahalo,
> >
> > Calvin Paxson
>
> Just a hint:
> Check if, on the old boxes, there is an environment variable
> "RUNPATH".
> This variable contains a list of directories where the runtime will
> look for files (either programs, or data files). Without it you'r
> limited to a single location.
>
> regards
> Paulo Vieira, Emporsoft
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