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Date:	Thu, 16 May 2002 09:21:16 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: SysLog PMWP.DLL errors (was: more on backup using compression software)

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> Peter Skye said:
>
> >What does a SYSLOGPM "Exception type: c0000005"
> >mean? An 0005 is a Bounds Check . . .

Steven Levine wrote:
>
> You are confusing exception codes with
> Intel trap codes. They are not the same.

Figured that, so I asked. The 0005 was the closest association I could
make.

> Open up your copy of the OS/2
> Debugging Handbook and search for:
> exception code
> To save you the stress of locating
> and, perhaps, installing the Handbook:

There's nothing more stressful over here than having to _find_
something.

> 0C0000005H
> XCPT_ACCESS_VIOLATION
>

Thanks, Steven.

> What I do is maintain a boot log. This is
> pretty much automated. A command in startup.cmd
> writes a timestamp record to the log file and an
> object in the startup folder opens the log file
> in EPM and positions it to the last line.

I remember you do this. I ran into a "glitch" with startup.cmd a while
back -- it seems that the boot process doesn't wait for Startup.cmd to
complete before processing the Startup folder. Hence, you can have the
object in the Startup folder execute _before_ the appropriate line in
startup.cmd is executed. I moved some of my startup.cmd contents to
config.sys so I could control the sequence of execution, but rexx stuff
in config.sys requires special handling and I haven't waded through
rxtt32.inf yet to get the details (you need BOS2REXX.EXE from BOOTOS2
and you can't use some library calls of course).

To open at the end of a file, does EPM have a command line option or do
you use a macro?

> >most of my glitches happen during XCOPY or XCOMP
> >(Roman Stangl's XCOPYesque COMP). These are
> >command line but I still think the Elsa driver
> >has something to do with the "glitches" . . .
>
> Perhaps. Are these local or network copy's? I
> would suspect disk controller or NIC respectively.

Local, they're part of my backup-to-disk procedure.

> What amuses me is the number of folks
> that recommend turning off and/or
> disabling all the failure analysis tools.

Are these the same guys who don't do backups?

> Seems to me, it would be better to
> spend a little time to understand
> what's there and make use of it.

I read a management article yesterday that said great leaders focus on
strategy and tactics, and delegate all the logistics and
infrastructure. Spending "a little time to understand what's there" is
logistics; these folks must all fancy themselves great leaders.

Lunch next week? I'll buy.

- Peter

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