[Trlog] Here's a Good one

[Rick Tavan]

I've had similar (not identical) problems when running in a DOS window 
under Win 98. For example, if I use a full trmaster.dta, tr freezes up 
but if I use an abbreviated version it runs fine. I suspected it's a 
memory management problem. But given your symptom, I'd bet on a wild 
flying memory access somewhere in the code that makes success dependent 
on what happens to be in some particular (but incorrect) memory location 
after startup; i.e. a bug. It probably works reliably in DOS only 
because that location happens to be benign.

Now I understand that I'm second-guessing the programmer, which is 
generally a non-productive exercise. I know; I was one. But the program 
isn't supported under Win so we can't complain. No, I have not bitten 
the bullet and gone to pure DOS because I really like the font control, 
window size control and accessibility of other programs that I get with 
Win 98 and a DOS window. So when I find these BS problems, I just tweak 
the environment until it starts working or give up on the feature I 
can't make work.

Another example - I was getting keyboard freeze. I bracketed the tr 
command with commands to load and unload a communications TSR that is 
completely irrelevant to my configuration and the keyboard unlocked. 
It's just the black magic we have to live with if we want to mess with 
Mother Nature.

73,

/Rick N6XI

K5NZ at aol.com wrote:

>I'm connecting 2 radios, using TR in a DOS window with Win 98SE..  Sometimes 
>when I start TR it locks up.. I remove the second radio from the 
>logcfg.datand it runs fine every time?  Add the second radio back and works 
>once then maybe not the next time you start TR.
>
>I restart in DOS only and it runs fine with both radios always?  Any idea why 
>running in the DOS window would cause intermitant problems?  Is it better to 
>restart in DOS and run TR this way all the time?
>
>mike k5nz
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