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Micro-Focus COBOL/2 Under Windows 95/98

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Mike A. Colledg #1 / 5	Micro-Focus COBOL/2 Under Windows 95/98 I recently inherited a system written in Micro-Focus COBOL/2 around 1994. They have been running the programs with no problems in DOS and Windows 3.1, but now they want to convert their computers to Windows 98. I have not been able to make the old Micro-Focus programs run under Windows 98. I try to run them in the DOS window and I get the following error message - LOAD FAILURE (157) ON FILE C:XXXXXXXX.EXE This error says there is not enough program memory, so I tried running them using the XM utility program. Then I get the error message - Encountered unrecoverable system interrupt 0D error B8000 cs 042F ip 0050 Is there any way to make these old programs run under Windows 98? I've tried looking at Merant's web site but it is useless. Have they ever thought of making their knowledgebase accessible? I also called their technical support people, but they wouldn't help unless I paid several hundred dollars for a support contract. We do plan to convert these programs (probably to delphi 5) in the future, but would like to be able to run them on Windows 98 in the interim. Any assistance anyone can offer would be gratly appreciated. Mike A. Colledge The Colledge Group, Ltd.
Fri, 12 Apr 2002 03:00:00 GMT

Sff5 #2 / 5	Micro-Focus COBOL/2 Under Windows 95/98 Quote: >I recently inherited a system written in Micro-Focus COBOL/2 around >1994. They have been running the programs with no problems in DOS and >Windows 3.1, but now they want to convert their computers to Windows 98. >I have not been able to make the old Micro-Focus programs run under >Windows 98. I try to run them in the DOS window and I get the following >error message - > LOAD FAILURE (157) ON FILE C:XXXXXXXX.EXE >This error says there is not enough program memory, so I tried running >them using the XM utility program. Then I get the error message - > Encountered unrecoverable system interrupt 0D error B8000 cs 042F >ip 0050 I don't know if this will help or not. Assuming that the error message is correct about memory availability, I would suggest doing a CHKDSK or MEM on the old DOS/Win3.1 system to see what you have for available memory. Then do the same in the DosPrompt under Win98. In all likelihood, you will have more than 595K in the base 640K available under Win98. SOME old programs don't like having more than 590K available in the base 640K. you can get around this by creating a copy of the DOSPROMPT.PIF and reducing the requested memory amount to less than 600K and see how that works. If the old program was making use of 'system calls', you may be out of luck as several 'system level' calls have been removed or replaced with Win32 specific calls. Hope that this helps narrow the focus on what may be your particular problems.
Fri, 12 Apr 2002 03:00:00 GMT

Alister Munr #3 / 5	Micro-Focus COBOL/2 Under Windows 95/98 What RTS are you using (Static or Dynamic / Resident). I use MF WB 2.4 for dos & although I have been unable to run XM with windows, I have no problems with applications built with the Resident RTS. Quote: > I recently inherited a system written in Micro-Focus COBOL/2 around > 1994. They have been running the programs with no problems in DOS and > Windows 3.1, but now they want to convert their computers to Windows 98. > I have not been able to make the old Micro-Focus programs run under > Windows 98. I try to run them in the DOS window and I get the following > error message - > LOAD FAILURE (157) ON FILE C:XXXXXXXX.EXE > This error says there is not enough program memory, so I tried running > them using the XM utility program. Then I get the error message - > Encountered unrecoverable system interrupt 0D error B8000 cs 042F > ip 0050 > Is there any way to make these old programs run under Windows 98? I've > tried looking at Merant's web site but it is useless. Have they ever > thought of making their knowledgebase accessible? I also called their > technical support people, but they wouldn't help unless I paid several > hundred dollars for a support contract. > We do plan to convert these programs (probably to Delphi 5) in the > future, but would like to be able to run them on Windows 98 in the > interim. Any assistance anyone can offer would be gratly appreciated. > Mike A. Colledge > The Colledge Group, Ltd.
Sat, 13 Apr 2002 03:00:00 GMT

Thane Hubbe #4 / 5	Micro-Focus COBOL/2 Under Windows 95/98 On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:40:54 -0700, "Mike A. Colledge" Quote: >This error says there is not enough program memory, so I tried running >them using the XM utility program. Then I get the error message - > Encountered unrecoverable system interrupt 0D error B8000 cs 042F >ip 0050 I think XM is the right way to go. Try the XM switch settings. IE: SET XM=/P1 Then /P2, etc through /P6 There are a myriad of other switches that XM understands, but this is the most common one I have seen used to fix the 0D error under 32 bit Windows. --- Try a better search engine: http://www.google.com My personal web site: http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/2006/
Sat, 13 Apr 2002 03:00:00 GMT

Russell Style #5 / 5	Micro-Focus COBOL/2 Under Windows 95/98 Which runtime are you using? If it is reasonably recent (3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4) you could try getting the "current" runtime (3.4) from MF. This also includes a more recent XM. If it was compiled with a compiler much older than ver 3 it might not work with newest runtime. Also consider the other XM switches, such as JKQ and R in addition to "P" switches. If you want to run without XM, try optimizing the dos window. You should be able to get > 600K free memory when you execute the MEM command. Do the usual - himem, emm386, dos=high,umb. Be conservative with EMM386. Quote: > I recently inherited a system written in Micro-Focus COBOL/2 around > 1994. They have been running the programs with no problems in DOS and > Windows 3.1, but now they want to convert their computers to Windows 98. > I have not been able to make the old Micro-Focus programs run under > Windows 98. I try to run them in the DOS window and I get the following > error message - > LOAD FAILURE (157) ON FILE C:XXXXXXXX.EXE > This error says there is not enough program memory, so I tried running > them using the XM utility program. Then I get the error message - > Encountered unrecoverable system interrupt 0D error B8000 cs 042F > ip 0050 > Is there any way to make these old programs run under Windows 98? I've > tried looking at Merant's web site but it is useless. Have they ever > thought of making their knowledgebase accessible? I also called their > technical support people, but they wouldn't help unless I paid several > hundred dollars for a support contract. > We do plan to convert these programs (probably to Delphi 5) in the > future, but would like to be able to run them on Windows 98 in the > interim. Any assistance anyone can offer would be gratly appreciated. > Mike A. Colledge > The Colledge Group, Ltd.
Sat, 13 Apr 2002 03:00:00 GMT

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