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Date:	Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:57:13 PST8
From:	Tom Brown <thombrown@san.rr.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: PMView crash

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Steven Levine wrote:
> In <4421A44E.2020803@san.rr.com>, on 03/22/06
> at 11:24 AM, Tom Brown said:
>
>
>>6. Re-installed PMView Pro from pmview324os2fullenu.exe (6,145,596
>>bytes). The install via Warpin ran "successfully" according to Warpin. 7.
>>Running PMView crashes just as before.
>>8. All other items in the PMView Pro folder work as expected.
>
>
>>Is there any way to trace what is happening? I have never done this
>>before, so it would be a "learning experience" for me! :-)
>
>
> Very strange. Warpin used bzip2 compression, so a bad download is
> extremely unlikely. Just to be sure, this what I have.
>
>
>>dir /km pmview324os2fullenu.exe %+ md5sum pmview324os2fullenu.exe
>
> 2-20-06 18:51 6,145,596 0 pmview324os2fullenu.exe
> 9f82a21d2f1ef6be6f12b0a38b7ffd6d *pmview324os2fullenu.exe
>
> Let's try something simple first. Zip up the installed pmview.exe and
> send it my way. Let's see if it runs on my system.
>
> Is this your SMP box that's failing? I'm pretty sure Peter develops on an
> SMP box, so that should not be an issue.
>
> You might peruse
>
> <http://home.earthlink.net/~steve53/os2diags/ProcDumpRef.txt>
>
> I might be able to see what's failing with a process dump.
>
> If should not matter, but if you have any left over copies of
> PMVDDROP.DLL, you might want to remove them.

I added DUMPPROCESS=W to my CONFIG.SYS and re-booted. W: is JFS.
Tried PMView again, but no dump was created. :-((

Another question: Can you get TRAPDUMP to work on a system with 2 GiB
RAM? The dump partition is supposed to be FAT, but the system won't
format a 2 GiB partition as FAT!

Thanks!

--
Tom Brown, Catherder
thombrown at san dot rr dot com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E. & SDAA

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