Author: Steven Juchnowski
Date: 21:42:51 01/07/99
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On January 06, 1999 at 12:49:18, Barry Culp wrote: >On January 05, 1999 at 12:07:10, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: > >>On January 05, 1999 at 11:54:32, Barry Culp wrote: >> >>>I have a problem with Hiarcs 5 and 6 on a PII-450 system. When I boot up >>>WIN98 and choose the "Safe mode command prompt only" option, and >>>then start HIARCS with the -X option to achieve max 64mb hash tables, my system >>>freezes. I know of 2 other people with PII-4xx systems who have the same >>>problem. The programmer of Hiarcs knows about my problem but has not given >>>me any feedback... (: (: (: >>> >>>Has anyone else run into this ? >>> >>>P.S. Hiarcs does work fine on my system when using a normal WIN98 DOS box with >>>128k hash tables >> >>Do you have himem.sys loaded? With a memory manager Hiarcs -x won't work. Before >>loading Hiarcs, you can type mem /p and see if himem.sys is loaded. It shouldn't >>be. >> >>I have no problems at all on PII-400s with 256MB RAM, with W95 and now with W98. >> >>Enrique > > > >Himem.sys is not loaded when you boot with "safe mode command prompt only" >Himem.sys is loaded when you boot with "command prompt only". If you try >to start Hiarcs with the -X option in this scenario, Hiarcs will end with >error code 261. Unfortunately none of this helps me with my problem. > >Barry Try booting up your system with a DOS disk and running Hiarcs -x from there. The error code 261 only seems to occur when accessing DOS from Windows. Regards Steven
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