Hi everybody!

We have some programs written in the very old mbp Visual Cobol (bought
by Microfocus in 1994) running on MS-DOS PCs and Novell 3.12 Server.
Now its my Job to get these programs work with clients under Windows 98
or NT Workstation 4.0. Ive tested all possible configurations, but i
always get some file crashs.
Record locking while writing random seems to fail. There ist a small
application called VCMUISAM.EXE to test the record locking. It works
perfectly when using two MS-DOS Clients. It also works when using 1
MS-DOS-Client and 1 Windows 98 Client. But it fails, when using 2
Clients with Windows 98 or Windows NT.

Is there any newer runtime module, which I can use without a new
compilation of all programs (Im not a good programmer!) or is there any
trick with it?

The runtime module ist VCSIM.EXE (Multiuser), version 2.00.

Thank you very much for any hint!
Or perhaps you know someone who can help me ....

Greetings
Bernd Drechsel

Secondly - and this might fix it for you - go to

My Computer
Control Panel
System
Performance Tab
File System button
Trouble Shooting Tab
Select the check box "Disable new file sharing and locking semantics".

Do it on all workstations.

I will keep you informed!

Thanks
Bernd Drechsel