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newstar
December 5th, 2006, 11:16 AM
Running MS DOS 6.22 in a Deskview enviroment. I've been using a text editing program called PC-Write. The file used for printing is PR.exe. Everything has been running without any issue for years. Just yesterday I attempted to print a text file and received a divide overflow error.

There have been no changes to the system and no new software has been installed for years. I tried to run PR.exe from a different directory with the same result. I have installed a fresh copy of the program, but it still yields the divide overflow error.

Any insight will be appreciated. Thank you...

jdc2000
December 5th, 2006, 11:56 AM
Have you tried printing a file that previously printed OK, or is it just on this one file?

newstar
December 6th, 2006, 03:48 PM
Yes the issue is that the program now crashes. So I don't have an opportunity to select a file to print out. I'm investigating further with the thought that a component of Deskview, Qemm is causing the program to attampt to access protected memory, or something like that.. Will post further results later tonight.

newstar
December 6th, 2006, 08:39 PM
Problem is resolved. The Qemm environment places the program in expanded or extended memory. So when I started the program from DOS, rather than as a Desqview window, it accssed protected memory and crashed. This is a result of the "config.sys" file that I need to run Desqview. Hope this is clear to anyone interested.

jdc2000
December 7th, 2006, 11:14 AM
Thanks for the update.

newstar
December 7th, 2006, 12:32 PM
I know it's a long shot... but hopefully the info will help another user... /bp