DOS: Run Time Error 100 and 110

[singhals]

What the heck are Run Time Error 100 and Run Time Error 110?

I had to re-install a DOS program on my 98 box, and everytime I open the
thing I get one or the other of those within minutes, even if I never
touch the keyboard.

Cheryl

[Dave Hinz]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:52:15 -0400, singhals <[email protected]> wrote:

What the heck are Run Time Error 100 and Run Time Error 110?

I had to re-install a DOS program on my 98 box, and everytime I open the
thing I get one or the other of those within minutes, even if I never
touch the keyboard.

Sounds application-specific to me, I don't recognize them as a MSDOS
kind of message. It's been a while though, I could be wrong.

Dave Hinz

[Ye Old One]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:52:15 -0400, singhals <[email protected]>
enriched this group when s/he wrote:

What the heck are Run Time Error 100 and Run Time Error 110?

I had to re-install a DOS program on my 98 box, and everytime I open the
thing I get one or the other of those within minutes, even if I never
touch the keyboard.

Cheryl

100 is usually an incorrect argument passed to a dos routine.

Are you running in a DOS window?

--
Bob.

[Paul Blair]

Ye Old One wrote:

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:52:15 -0400, singhals <[email protected]
enriched this group when s/he wrote:

What the heck are Run Time Error 100 and Run Time Error 110?

I had to re-install a DOS program on my 98 box, and everytime I open the
thing I get one or the other of those within minutes, even if I never
touch the keyboard.

Cheryl

100 is usually an incorrect argument passed to a dos routine.

Are you running in a DOS window?

Run ScanDisk (yeah!).. 100 often means a bad sector. If the box is
connected to the web, also check for a possible virus.

Paul

[singhals]

Dave Hinz wrote:

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:52:15 -0400, singhals <[email protected]> wrote:

What the heck are Run Time Error 100 and Run Time Error 110?

I had to re-install a DOS program on my 98 box, and everytime I open the
thing I get one or the other of those within minutes, even if I never
touch the keyboard.


Sounds application-specific to me, I don't recognize them as a MSDOS
kind of message. It's been a while though, I could be wrong.

Dave Hinz

The program was designed for DOS 4 I think, maybe 3?, but it ran fine on
the same box before I did the re-install. Irksome.

Cheryl

[singhals]

Ye Old One wrote:

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:52:15 -0400, singhals <[email protected]
enriched this group when s/he wrote:


What the heck are Run Time Error 100 and Run Time Error 110?

I had to re-install a DOS program on my 98 box, and everytime I open the
thing I get one or the other of those within minutes, even if I never
touch the keyboard.

Cheryl


100 is usually an incorrect argument passed to a dos routine.

Are you running in a DOS window?

Yeah. First got the error after typing "dec" in the death-date field of
about 15 records I was updating. After that, if the program's even open
90 secs I get the Run Time Error. Worked fine before I had to
re-install it.

Cheryl

[singhals]

Paul Blair wrote:

Ye Old One wrote:

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:52:15 -0400, singhals <[email protected]
enriched this group when s/he wrote:

What the heck are Run Time Error 100 and Run Time Error 110?

I had to re-install a DOS program on my 98 box, and everytime I open
the thing I get one or the other of those within minutes, even if I
never touch the keyboard.

Cheryl


100 is usually an incorrect argument passed to a dos routine.

Are you running in a DOS window?


Run ScanDisk (yeah!).. 100 often means a bad sector. If the box is
connected to the web, also check for a possible virus.

Paul

Oh, Bleech!! I knew there was a reason 100 sent my BP skyward. I'll
give it a shot.

Cheryl

[Dave Hinz]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:17:22 -0400, singhals <[email protected]> wrote:

Dave Hinz wrote:

Sounds application-specific to me, I don't recognize them as a MSDOS
kind of message. It's been a while though, I could be wrong.

The program was designed for DOS 4 I think, maybe 3?, but it ran fine on
the same box before I did the re-install. Irksome.

OK, if it was _me_, I'd build a Linux box, and then run MSDOS4 in a
vmware instance as a virtual machine. Take Windows out of the picture
entirely. It emulates dos6 fairly well, olders ones not so much. A
pristine environment that thinks it's all by itself is how I've done
things like this in the past. Also cuts down on virus concerns when the
virus would have to get through Linux to get to it.

[singhals]

Dave Hinz wrote:

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:17:22 -0400, singhals <[email protected]> wrote:

Dave Hinz wrote:


Sounds application-specific to me, I don't recognize them as a MSDOS
kind of message. It's been a while though, I could be wrong.


The program was designed for DOS 4 I think, maybe 3?, but it ran fine on
the same box before I did the re-install. Irksome.


OK, if it was _me_, I'd build a Linux box, and then run MSDOS4 in a
vmware instance as a virtual machine. Take Windows out of the picture
entirely. It emulates dos6 fairly well, olders ones not so much. A
pristine environment that thinks it's all by itself is how I've done
things like this in the past. Also cuts down on virus concerns when the
virus would have to get through Linux to get to it.

I was looking for something other than an OS change to fix it, though? (g)

Cheryl