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Clipper program crashing in win95

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by bentz

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I support a clipper based application that is used for client data entry. The program works fine but after a period of time the program starts to bog down. What I mean is while tabbing from field to field you notice it hesitates after a while and eventually the program will just close. You do not need to restart the PC just open the program again and it works fine. The program is run from an icon on the desktop. I added the emm386.exe and himem.sys lines in the config.sys for expanded memory tobe available. PC's have 64-128 MB RAM and they are at least Pentium 133's. Not sure if there is some kind of memory leak in the program but any ideas on this would be very helpful.

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by mjrebholz

I've experienced similar problems with CLIPPER-based DOS executables and databases under Win95 before..

This might not be exactly what you're looking for, but we had to put SET CLIPPER = variables in the AUTOEXEC.BAT to force the system to use either conventional memory, or to access the disk rather than the network mapped drive for caching..

We used SET CLIPPER=F80 SWAPPATH:C:\ as the variable I believe..

There are other documented variables for clipper, e.g. see technote Q63279.

Regards

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