RE: Btrieve, MAGIC, NOVELL vs Freedos

You could be right and I am mistaken.  But btrieve does not run on a 
client except in admin mode.  It's really running on the server but is 
maintained by admin privilege from a client.  There is no tsr.

Paul

>  >>i have some big problems at a company they have a Novell server 
running 
>  >>4.11 and some aplications requiring Btrieve to run, when they 
connect to 
>  >>the server do whatever they want all works fine but when they 
start 
>  >>brtieve it swaps drive C: with A: and as there's no floppy in its 
drive 
>  >>when they exit any of the applications they get errors like 
unable to 
>  >>read drive c: and the floppy drive is working instead of the HDD.
> 
>  >If you are a CNE, as I am, then you must be aware that there are 
no c: or 
>  >d: drives on a Novell Server (except for one small partition that 
is not 
>  >seen while Novell is running. What you have are volumes which MUST 
be 
>  >mounted. Make a floppy with the proper mounting software and you 
might 
>  >have better luck. You can mail me off list if you wish more help. 
Paul
> 
> 	I think Roth Tamas is refering to the client, not the server, 
he said that 
> ever thing workings fine connecting to the server, only when 
starting the 
> btrieve clients does it freak out.
> 
> 	It sould like the btrieve client might be using DOS tricks to 
go resident, 
> now if I remember reading of the list not to long ago, there is a 
whole 
> thing with TSR's and PSP and stuff like that.  I think that someone 
would 
> have to have a closer look at the TSR.  Have you looked for the 
latest 
> version of the client?  That might help.
> 
> 	I remember having problems with btrieve and Win95 when Win95 
first came out, 
> and an updated btrieve.exe fixed the problem.
> 
> 	Hope that helps.
> 
> Mailed
> Lee
> 
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