From: Jim Westbrook
    To: B.J. Guillot
Thread: Bink->bgfax problem  (1/3)
  Date: 20-Aug-97, 2:48am  (Ref# 5637)

Bill Eastman and I have been slugging away on my problems with Binkley/BGFAX
and have finally found a workable solution.  For whatever reason, the "Extern
Spawn" option in Binkley.Cfg appears to be the problem.  Changing that to
"Extern EXIT" and adding another errorlevel trap line to the Binkley batch file
(and a line in the ExtMail.Bat to restart the main batch) correctly hands off
from Binkley to BGFAX.

I have a line in the ExtMail.Bat that calls MEM and redirects the results to a
file.  It showed that with the spawn method there was 546k free when the batch
was spawned.  Using the Exit method, there was 550k free.  After shuffling
several things around in the config and autoexec, the best I could do was 551k
free with the spawn option and 555k free with the exit option.  After all of
that, it wasn't a memory problem anyway, because the spawn option continued to
fail.

I'm still puzzled as to why the previously working setup failed the first time
I really tried to use it.  Literally nothing had changed in the binkley.cfg,
the system config and autoexe, TSR's, software versions, fossil driver, or
bgfax itself.  Changing revs of bgfax had no effect.  ONLY changing from spawn
to exit options within the binkley.cfg made it work.  I'm happier, but just as
confused as ever as to why it quit working.

Jim

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  From: B.J. Guillot
    To: Jim Westbrook
Thread: Bink->bgfax problem  (2/3)
  Date: 27-Aug-97, 12:09pm  (Ref# 5647)

> Bill Eastman and I have been slugging away on my problems with Binkley/BGFAX
> and have finally found a workable solution.  For whatever reason, the "Extern
> Spawn" option in Binkley.Cfg appears to be the problem.  Changing that to
> "Extern EXIT" and adding another errorlevel trap line to the Binkley batch fi
> (and a line in the ExtMail.Bat to restart the main batch) correctly hands off
> from Binkley to BGFAX.
 
I have no explanation for this.  Perhaps Binkley was disappointed with
the movie.  :-)
 
> was spawned.  Using the Exit method, there was 550k free.  After shuffling
> several things around in the config and autoexec, the best I could do was 551
> free with the spawn option and 555k free with the exit option.  After all of
 
5K of memory is fairly meaningless, since you have over 500K available.
 
Regards,
bgfax author


  From: Jim Westbrook
    To: B.J. Guillot
Thread: Re: Bink->bgfax problem  (3/3)
  Date: 28-Aug-97, 9:37am  (Ref# 5659)

 On Thursday August 28 1997, B.J. Guillot wrote to Jim Westbrook:

BG> I have no explanation for this.  Perhaps Binkley was disappointed
BG> with the movie.  :-)

This is beginning to look more and more like the answer...or, could it have
been the alignment of Jupiter and Mars? :)

>> was spawned.  Using the Exit method, there was 550k free.
>> After shuffling several things around in the config and
>> autoexec, the best I could do was 551 free with the spawn
>> option and 555k free with the exit option.  After all of
BG>
BG> 5K of memory is fairly meaningless, since you have over 500K
BG> available.

Oh, I know that.  The point was that after the shuffling there was more free
with the spawn option than there previously had been with the exit option.


Jim

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