Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:15:52 11/10/97
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On November 10, 1997 at 11:37:45, Ed Schröder wrote: >>Posted by Kai Lübke on November 10, 1997 at 05:27:59: > >>I have the problem that Rebel 9 crashes whenever I try to load >>the "topbase" database supplied on the Bonus CD. >>This happens under Win95 (13 and 28 MB hash) as well as under pure DOS >>(booted in safe mode, 60 MB hash). >>Under Windows, Rebel simply exits to the desktop. >>Under DOS, I get a "page fault at ..." message. > >I have no idea. > >It must be the way the database is opened. Any Rebel database is always >opened with the "rb+" attribute. Perhaps your cdrom driver does not >allow the "+" which allows writing. > >Any programmers here with more knowledge? > >For the moment I would advice you to copy the database to your hard >disk. Perhaps it's also needed to remove the 'read only' attribute. >Example: ATTRIB -R *.* > >I haven't heard of this problem before. Any data from cdrom can be >loaded within Rebel9. Whenever Rebel9 notices a cdrom file is loaded >the program automatically set all 'write commands' to the file OFF in >the pulldown menus to avoid you will write to the cdrom. But loading >a file should be no problem. > >- Ed Schroder - > This is quite likely the problem. A good while back someone took the book.bin file for crafty directly from a CDRom and tried to use it. It was flagged as read-only and the open would fail, rather than opening as read-only when I asked for "+". Same problem happened when several have tried to create a CD with the book, and use the book from the CD, which fails because I open for writing for the learning stuff... Some versions of libraries and/or DOS/windows seem to let the open proceed, and will bomb on a write, while others make the open fail completely which produces a different problem...
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