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Subject: Re: Hiarcs freezes when using -X option (64mb hash tables)

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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