Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!mullauna!gwing From: gwing@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Geoff C Wing) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: Error in DMS ! Message-ID: Date: 5 Jun 91 08:51:28 GMT Article-I.D.: mullauna.gwing.676111888 References: <91155.143734OEYO8729@TREARN.BITNET> <1991Jun4.205045.13440@en.ecn.purdue.edu> Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU Distribution: aus Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne, Australia Lines: 30 doctorj@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeffrey W Davis) writes: >In article <91155.143734OEYO8729@TREARN.BITNET> OEYO8729@TREARN.BITNET (Cem TURGAY) writes: >>Yesterday, I requested some others from same site. But I can't >>unmash them ! (with DMS WRITE RAM:.....dms) >>DMS gives an error: Info header not found. Invalid DMS archive. >> Fatal error ! >>But, but their TEST and VIEW don't give any error. Test and view say >>this is a DMS archive, info header at d659 and archive is OK ! >>But WRITE option doesn't think like TEST and VIEW ! >>(Names of these archs Genesis, budvscrio, crusaders.eurochart.91) >Apparently DMS is lacking in its error handling (eg. when there is no disk >in drive 0). I had the same problem with a friends machine. Apparently How does this drive 0 business come into it? Is this the situation that you are trying to dearc to drive x, and there's no disk in drive x? >when there is a low memory situation, DMS 'makes up' an error. I bet that >if you try the same archives on a machine with more memory there will be no >problem; at least that has been my experience. I am not impressed with DMS >in the least! >>Any information will be helpfull. Thanks Correct. It's a low-mem situation, and if you're doing "dms write ram: ...." then I suggest you either try to free some more mem, buy some more mem, or stop trying to dearc to ram. Why not register with SDS to help its development and get the window version? (but then I've heard the new Zoom's better :-) | Geoff C Wing | \ _ _ _ _ __ |gwing@mullauna.cs.mu.oz.au | // \ |\/| | / __ /\ |gwing@munmurra.cs.mu.oz.au | \X/ /\ \ | | _|_ \__| //\\ |static@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au|