WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS under ARev under NT (AREV Specific)
At 03 DEC 1997 04:19:13PM Jeff Daniels [email protected] wrote:
We have an application that shells out from ARev,
calls WordPerfect 5.1, lets the user edit and/or
print the document, and returns to ARev. It's
always worked fine, until we changed from Win 3.1
to WinNT. Now, about half the time, when WordPerfect
is finished, we get the message "FATAL ERROR IN
REV RESTART", the same thing you see if you run
a TSR while SUSPENDed from ARev. Does anyone have
any ideas about what could be causing this
problem?
Thanks!
At 06 DEC 1997 12:38AM Mark Martin wrote:
In NT, when you run a DOS program, the system will launch the app but it has to first launch the DOS command interpreter to allow this to run.
What this sounds like is some remnant of the shell is not being cleared. This may be due the printing not being done or some other function that interfaces to the NT operating system extensions.
One trick you may try is, instead of trying to launch WP directly, launch COMMAND.COM and call a batch file that launches WP like…
SUSPEND "COMMAND.COM CALLWP.BAT EXIT"
CALLWP.BAT file:
C:
CD \WP
WP.EXE
ECHO Re-entering Advanced Revelation
Pause
This will call COMMAND.COM instead of potentially calling CMD and it stops, requiring a key press before reentering AREV…
I'm not sure if it will fully fix the problem but should help…