[GEM Development] Strange problem running OpenGEM

Shane M. Coughlan shane at shaneland.co.uk
Sun Mar 19 13:35:15 PST 2006


A chap called Dima has been having a strange problem with running
OpenGEM and OpenGEM/XM on his FreeDOS machine.

His 4DOSLOG produces the following output

== START OUTPUT ==

ECHO is on
[17.03.06 14:42:57][0] cd \
[17.03.06 14:42:58][0] gem.bat
[17.03.06 14:42:58][0] ECHO OFF
[17.03.06 14:42:58][0] CLS
[17.03.06 14:42:58][0] CLS
[17.03.06 14:42:58][0] SUBST O: C:\OPENGEM
[17.03.06 14:42:58][0] O:
[17.03.06 14:42:58][0] CD\GEMAPPS\GEMSYS
[17.03.06 14:42:58][0] ECHO OFF
[17.03.06 14:42:58][0] GEMVDI
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] Unknown command "GEMVDI"
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] CLS
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] CLS
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO OFF
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO
**************************************************
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO               *
                   *
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO               * What would you like to do
now?                 *
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO               *
                   *
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO               * 1 - Restart OpenGEM
                   *
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO               *
                   *
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO               * 2 - Return to DOS
                   *
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO               *
                   *
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO               * 3 - Reboot the computer
                   *
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO               *
                   *
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO               * 4 - Shutdown the computer
                   *
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO               *     (This only works on ATX
computers)         *
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO               *
                   *
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO               *
                   *
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO               *
                   *
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO               * 5 - Help
                   *
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO               *
                   *
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO
**************************************************
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO.
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] ECHO                           Please select an
option...
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] CD\GEMAPPS\GEMSYS\
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] File not found "O:"
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] File not found "O:"
[17.03.06 14:42:59][0] choice /c:12345
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] if errorlevel 5 goto HELP
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] if errorlevel 4 goto 4
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] if errorlevel 3 goto 3
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] if errorlevel 2 goto 2
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] if errorlevel 1 goto 1
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] goto 1
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] CLS
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO OFF
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] GOTO LOADGEM
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] CD\GEMAPPS\GEMSYS
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] File not found "O:"
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] File not found "O:"
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO OFF
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] GEMVDI
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] Unknown command "GEMVDI"
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] CLS
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] CLS
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO OFF
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO
**************************************************
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO               *
                   *
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO               * What would you like to do
now?                 *
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO               *
                   *
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO               * 1 - Restart OpenGEM
                   *
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO               *
                   *
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO               * 2 - Return to DOS
                   *
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO               *
                   *
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO               * 3 - Reboot the computer
                   *
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO               *
                   *
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO               * 4 - Shutdown the computer
                   *
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO               *     (This only works on ATX
computers)         *
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO               *
                   *
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO               *
                   *
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO               *
                   *
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO               * 5 - Help
                   *
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO               *
                   *
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO
**************************************************
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO.
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] ECHO                           Please select an
option...
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] CD\GEMAPPS\GEMSYS\
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] File not found "O:"
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] File not found "O:"
[17.03.06 14:43:00][0] choice /c:12345
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] if errorlevel 5 goto HELP
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] if errorlevel 4 goto 4
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] if errorlevel 3 goto 3
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] if errorlevel 2 goto 2
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] goto 2
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] CLS
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] ECHO OFF
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] GOTO END
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] C:
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] File not found "O:"
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] CLS
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] CD\
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] ECHO
**************************************************
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] ECHO               *          Thank you for using
OpenGEM           *
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] ECHO               *
                   *
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] ECHO               *
http://gem.opendawn.com             *
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] ECHO
**************************************************
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] ECHO.
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] ECHO
**************************************************
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] ECHO               *        Press any key to
return to DOS...       *
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] ECHO
**************************************************
[17.03.06 14:43:01][0] PAUSE > NUL
[17.03.06 14:43:03][0] dn
[17.03.06 14:44:28][0] exit

==  END OUTPUT  ==


It's weird.  It seems that his system successfully SUBST's the folders
to drive O:, but then it cannot locate the files on that drive.
However, he can navigate to that drive to see the files (as shown with
his COMMAND.COM log below):


==  COMMAND.COM LOG ==

O:\>gemapps\gemsys\gemvdi.exe
Application not found
Execution terminated.

O:\GEMAPPS\GEMSYS>gemvdi
Bad command or filename - "gemvdi".

O:\GEMAPPS\GEMSYS>dir *.exe
 Volume in drive O is AD1S1
 Volume Serial Number is 264A-19DB
 Directory of O:\GEMAPPS\GEMSYS

CHOICE   EXE         5 320  24.06.2003  6:03
CTMOUSE  EXE         4 848  30.09.2002 16:09
GEM      EXE        72 738  27.08.2005  7:57
GEMVDI   EXE        19 346  13.04.1989 18:13
         4 file(s)        102 252 bytes
         0 dir(s)        201 Mega bytes free

==  END LOG  ==


I'm baffled.

Shane

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