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From: mregeste@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM (Mark Regester)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Procomm Plus Problems
Message-ID: <5690@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM>
Date: 1 Dec 89 01:14:43 GMT
Organization: NCR Corporation, Wichita, KS
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I am having problems with Procomm Plus that I can't totally figure out.
At our plant we use a wide range of PC's with an even wider range of
software and operating systems.

The problem we are having is that Procomm Plus will abort while loading
with the message "Error: cannot load .DIR file".  A call to Datastorm
said that this was caused by the system running out of environment
space.  On some PCs this was true and easily fixed with the shell
command in config.sys with the "/e" switch.  On others it has been a
little tougher.

Case 1:

Autoexec.bat loads network drivers by calling a batch file with:

    command.com /c loadnet.bat

Loadnet.bat contains several network drivers and netbios emulators.
Procomm Plus is not in the autoexec.bat file.  It is executed later
by the user.  With these PCs, the "cannot load .DIR file" is displayed.  
If the network commands in the loadnet.bat file are copied into 
autoexec.bat Procomm Plus does not have any problems.

Case 2:

Autoexec.bat loads a memory resident program and then later in the
batch file, creates an environment variable like "set temp=c:\temp".

Again Procomm Plus aborts with the ".DIR" message.  If the environment
variables are set before the memroy resident program, there are
no error messages.

Any ideas on what is happening here?

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Mark Regester Information Systems & Services, NCR Peripheral Products Division
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