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Marcia Fountain

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Oct 4, 2002, 12:20:30 PM10/4/02
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There were some postings about the "unknown internal operating system" error
message earlier, but I didn't find any that had found an answer.

I'm trying to put database files on a server, which is running Windows 2000
server, and access then with an .exe file and .wfo, etc. files from a computer
on the same network running Windows XP. The .exe works fine with no error
messages from my computer with Windows XP; this computer has my full dB2K
installation on it. But when I try to run the same set of .exe and object
files from a Windows XP computer that just has the dB2K run-time files on
it, I get the unknown, etc. message. I have tried it with the run-time engine
installed on the server and without the run-time engine installed on the
server.

Any ideas?

M Fountain

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Don Wellsand

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Oct 4, 2002, 1:01:15 PM10/4/02
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Hi Marcia,

This error can occur when attempting to open a dBASE table
whose language driver is not installed on your computer.
In most circumstances this means a bad BDE install and
the BDE should be reinstalled.

--
Don Wellsand
CCNA, CTT+, MCT, MCSE


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Romain Strieff [dBVIPS]

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Oct 4, 2002, 2:08:46 PM10/4/02
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In article Marcia Fountain, sthism...@utep.edu politely
paraphrased...
> I'm trying ... But when I try to run the same set of .exe and object

> files from a Windows XP computer that just has the dB2K run-time files on
> it, I get the unknown, etc. message. I have tried it with the run-time engine
> installed on the server and without the run-time engine installed on the
> server.
>
I guess it's registry needs to know where the BDE is. Did you install it
on that machine?
--
Romain Strieff [dBVIPS]
http://www.dbase.com/Docs/newsguid.htm

M Fountain

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Oct 4, 2002, 2:56:13 PM10/4/02
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I tried installing it in the default installation on Drive C and later, after
uninstalling this one, I tried in the same folder as the database files themselves,
which are on the same hard disk, but in "Drive E" - it's separated into 2
partitions or whatever they are called.

How can I point to where it is other than this? It's installed on both the
Windows 2000 Server computer and the XP computer trying to access the Windows
2000 server computer

MF

M Fountain

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Oct 4, 2002, 2:50:59 PM10/4/02
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I used the Build 1661 version of the Runtime engine install from the Gold
site to install the run-time engine. Does that not install the language driver??
Is there a separate install for the language driver?

MF

Romain Strieff [dBVIPS]

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Oct 4, 2002, 3:01:07 PM10/4/02
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In article M Fountain, xthism...@utep.edu politely paraphrased...

> I tried installing it in the default installation on Drive C and later, after
> uninstalling this one, I tried in the same folder as the database files themselves,
> which are on the same hard disk, but in "Drive E" - it's separated into 2
> partitions or whatever they are called.
>
> How can I point to where it is other than this? It's installed on both the
> Windows 2000 Server computer and the XP computer trying to access the Windows
> 2000 server computer
>
Check if the registry mentions the BDE, if not, it was never installed.
The Runtime engine is for running the EXEs and DEOs, the BDE is
something different.

Don Wellsand

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Oct 4, 2002, 4:36:04 PM10/4/02
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If you go to the control panel and double click bde administrator,
open configuration, drivers and native, what does it say the
language driver is for dbase? Is this the same as your machine?

I use WEurope' ansi and it works fine accessing tables on a w2k
server from xp clients.

The default file is in c:\program files\common files\borland\bde\idapi.cfg.
If you want to move to another location, click on object and then save
as configuration and put it wherever you want.


--
Don Wellsand
CCNA, CTT+, MCT, MCSE


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M Fountain

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Oct 4, 2002, 5:28:47 PM10/4/02
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Ah! - I think I understand what didn't get done. Will try again over week
end.

Romain Strieff [dBVIPS] <Rom...@forget.it> wrote:

M Fountain

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Oct 10, 2002, 1:18:59 PM10/10/02
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Both language drivers say 'ascii' ANSI, as does the computer on which the
.exe file and all the forms and databases were created. However, I still get
the same error. Sorry to be slow in answering - had to deal with a hard disk
crash on a different computer. I was totally backed up luckily!

I sure would like to find the solution to this. Could someone maybe give a
walk through for the installations needed on the server??

Thanks to all

M Fountain

Jens Richter

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Oct 11, 2002, 12:36:55 AM10/11/02
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I face the same error, even under other circumstances.
(see ng native-tables, thread "VdB&db2k not able to open db-DOS-created
tables")

So far, I could not finish diagnosis according to the approach
recommended by Rick Fillmann.

Regards
Jens Richter

M Fountain

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Oct 11, 2002, 11:47:35 AM10/11/02
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I don't think it is the same problem, because I can also run the application
and access the tables in Db2k on a local machine, and I can also run the
application and access the tables from the network drive if I do it from a
computer that has the full version of dB2k installed. It's very, very
puzzling!

I am not using BDE aliases; path is hard-coded. Silly me - I thought the
less I needed to deal with the BDE the better! But since I can run the .exe
file, access the tables on the network drive, etc. with no problem on the
computer with the full dB2K, there has to be something wrong in the
deployment of the .exe etc. to the other computer. At least I guess so. Sure
wish I could figure it out. After years of running as a stand alone and
copying files around computers, now that I finally have a viable network and
server, it would be nice to be able to utilize it!

MF


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M Fountain

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Oct 11, 2002, 1:54:19 PM10/11/02
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Found it!!! And it wasn't dB2k or the Borland engine - it was as simple as
the fact that I had forgotten to tell Windows XP to remember my password to
the shared network drive on the server. Embarrassing as usual - my errors
are always simple and stupid but hard to track down.

MF


"Marcia Fountain" <sthism...@utep.edu> wrote in message
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> There were some postings about the "unknown internal operating system"
error
> message earlier, but I didn't find any that had found an answer.
>

> M Fountain
>
> A


Jan Hoelterling

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Oct 12, 2002, 9:59:04 PM10/12/02
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"M Fountain" <mfou...@utep.edu> wrote in message
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>Embarrassing as usual - my errors
> are always simple and stupid but hard to track down.
>
> MF

Actually, that seems to be a Windows design principle - Billy Gates must
have told his cohorts "Hide the really important stuff in the place where
the user is least likely to look" <BG>

I've wanted to make dbase report errors several times as "User error -
please replace user." at least there it's usually own code. <LOL>

It happens to all of us...

Jan

Geoff Wass

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Oct 12, 2002, 5:12:35 AM10/12/02
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Marcia,

Thank-you for coming back to us with your resolution.

:-)


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Geoff Wass ( dBVIPS )
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

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Marcia Fountain

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Oct 13, 2002, 12:56:46 AM10/13/02
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Too true an error message!
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