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From: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (cbema!las)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Procomm Plus Problems
Message-ID: <11994@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Dec 89 18:18:09 GMT
References: <5690@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr,20650,cb,9a110,6148605851)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH (actually an AGS consultant)
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In article <5690@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM> mregeste@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM (Mark Regester) writes:
}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.

Hmm...  It may not be germaine to your case, but I was once called in
to help with a PC having this problem and found that PCPLUS' data files
had been clobbered, apparently due to a failing hard disk.  When we
cleared the pcplus directory and reinstalled, the problem went away.

regards, Larry
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