Re: Several problems with 2.5.27 version on Windows ME

[Brynne and Russ Jorgensen]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:


> > When I run ooes.exe, it pops up a dos box to run the ooes.bat, but the
> > dos-box sticks around (title bar says 'Finished - ooes') rather than
> > disappearing.
> >
> > Before fixing the global setting for amount of environment memory, the
> > dos-box said 'Out of environment space', but ooes.exe said
> > Environment space is fine'.  Looks like the exit code from ooes.bat
> > isn't making it back to ooes.exe.
>
>
> Thanks for testing this.  We need more elaborate testing, ie the value
> of a variable and explicit exit code.  Something like
>
>     set ooes=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx....
>     [out of environment space]
>     set foo=bar
>     if not x%foo%=xbar got error
>     exit 0
>     :error
>     exit 1
>
> Could you test if that works?  It may be that the first set statement
> causing the error is ignored, and a still gets the value foo.

Do you still want me to test if this works now that it sounds like 
you're going to abandon BAT wrappers?

> > globally setting the amount of environment memory under Win-ME is more
> > difficult under Win-ME than Win-95 and Win-98.  They've disabled a
> > bunch of the old DOS stuff - in particular, I've never found ANYTHING
> > that can go in config.sys.  Instead, I found instructions on the
> > internet as follows:
> >
> >     add the following line to the SYSTEM.INI file (in c:\windows) under
> >         
> >     CommandEnvSize=4096
> >
> > I used the msconfig tool to do this instead of editing by hand...
>
>
> Do you have a Microsoft URL that we can present in the popup box?

You know, since it looks like Microsoft has maintained support for 
CommandEnvSize=xyz in SYSTEM.INI from way back when, you might be able 
to have your installation program just do it for the user rather than 
popping up a URL for the user to do it themselves.  Again, maybe not 
useful if you're abandoning BAT wrappers, but just a thought.

        -Russ