Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!waikato.ac.nz!canterbury!otago.ac.nz!klox From: klox@otago.ac.nz Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: CLIPPER help needed Message-ID: <1991Apr17.155041.298@otago.ac.nz> Date: 17 Apr 91 04:43:00 GMT References: <22248@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Lines: 17 In article <22248@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com>, maurit@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (Mark Aurit ) writes: > Im writing a utility for a user in which they can perform selective > archiving, and decided to use the DOS BACKUP/RESTORE commands. I wrote > a standalone program, linking it with TLINK. After getting it working > I linked it into the main program (using BLINKER), which is fairly > large (>526K disk space), and the sucker blew on the misc_error about > RUN processing (on the line prior to the "RUN BACKUP" a MEMORY(0)=64). > Since I believe it could find command.com, which was comspec'ed, I assume > its a memory problem. Try this in your autoexec file SET CLIPPER=R075 this reserves memory for clipper to use when running dos programs. See section 9 of your manual for details Cheers KLox