Unable to run two instances (dosemu + foxpro)

Unable to run two instances (dosemu + foxpro)

[Jens Knoell]

Hi

I've been banging my head against the wall for a few days now and cannot 
seem to find a solution.

My problem is that I cannot seem to run FoxPro for DOS more than once at 
the same time. I've basically set dosemu as a log in shell for a user, 
lets name him Mike. He logs in, opens foxpro, works. At the same time I 
want to open up foxpro as a different user, lets name him John. Foxpro 
just exits without any error message.

I'm stumped. Any ideas?

-Jen

---Some info about the installation---
Versions:
FreeCom version 0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap [Aug 28 2006 00:29:00]
dosemu-1.4.0.0
foxpro 2.6 (DOS)

Memory:
Memory Type        Total       Used       Free
----------------  --------   --------   --------
Conventional          640K        10K       630K
Upper                 140K        21K       119K
Reserved              244K       244K         0K
Extended (XMS)    131,136K       164K   130,972K
----------------  --------   --------   --------
Total memory      132,160K       439K   131,721K

Total under 1 MB      780K        31K       749K

Total Expanded (EMS)                  128M (134,217,728 bytes)
Free Expanded (EMS)                   128M (134,217,728 bytes)

Largest executable program size       630K (644,768 bytes)
Largest free upper memory block       116K (119,200 bytes)
FreeDOS is resident in the high memory area.

Re: Unable to run two instances (dosemu + foxpro)

[Ivan Baldo]

    Hello.
    Have you looked at the .dosemu/boot.log file?
    BTW, never saw a DOS with more than 64Mib of XMS or EMS memory, at 
least DR-DOS or MS-DOS didn't allow it! Maybe a FreeDOS extension? :-)
    Having much less EMS and XMS memory would be better, since those 
programs wheren't designed for so much memory, so, using 4Mib or 8Mib 
should be plenty for them, try reducing the amount of memory, maybe that 
causes the problem?
    Bye.



El 12/11/08 21:05, Jens Knoell escribió:
> Hi
>
> I've been banging my head against the wall for a few days now and 
> cannot seem to find a solution.
>
> My problem is that I cannot seem to run FoxPro for DOS more than once 
> at the same time. I've basically set dosemu as a log in shell for a 
> user, lets name him Mike. He logs in, opens foxpro, works. At the same 
> time I want to open up foxpro as a different user, lets name him John. 
> Foxpro just exits without any error message.
>
> I'm stumped. Any ideas?
>
> -Jen
>
> ---Some info about the installation---
> Versions:
> FreeCom version 0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap [Aug 28 2006 00:29:00]
> dosemu-1.4.0.0
> foxpro 2.6 (DOS)
>
> Memory:
> Memory Type        Total       Used       Free
> ----------------  --------   --------   --------
> Conventional          640K        10K       630K
> Upper                 140K        21K       119K
> Reserved              244K       244K         0K
> Extended (XMS)    131,136K       164K   130,972K
> ----------------  --------   --------   --------
> Total memory      132,160K       439K   131,721K
>
> Total under 1 MB      780K        31K       749K
>
> Total Expanded (EMS)                  128M (134,217,728 bytes)
> Free Expanded (EMS)                   128M (134,217,728 bytes)
>
> Largest executable program size       630K (644,768 bytes)
> Largest free upper memory block       116K (119,200 bytes)
> FreeDOS is resident in the high memory area.
>
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