Weird Error

[Bob Stockler]

Here's a weird one . . .

I transferred my filePro stuff (5.0.07DN9) from Windows Me
to Windows XP Professional.  I also transferred a UNIX shell
and some native Windows UNIX Utilities at the same time.

One of the choices on my filePro Main Menu is to execute a
UNIX shell.  It worked fine on Windows Me, and also does on
XP, except when I exit the processing table that puts me in
a UNIX shell, I get this error message, and the window does
not close:

  The instruction at 004b239c referenced memory at ffffffff
  The memory could not be read from

The hex addresses may vary, but the message text doesn't.

At first I thought it might be the UNIX shell causing the
problem, but commenting out the SYSTEM command line that
executed it didn't change anything.

I finally commented out every Condition and Action line in
the table, and executing it brings me up immediately to the
regular filePro IUA menu for that filePro file as one would
expect.  However, exiting from there still causes the same
error condition.

I can execute other input tables in the same filePro file,
or other filePro files, with no problems.

Below is the processing table.  What about it, with everything
in it commented out, could cause this?

    1  Then: declare PFPROG,PFDATA,PFDIR,AWKPATH,PATH,OLDPWD
    2  Then: declare DFLT,PWD,SHELL,LYNX_CFG,CDPATH,LESS
@MENU    If: 
    3  Then: BREAK OFF ; PFPROG = getenv["PFPROG"]
    4  Then: PFDATA = getenv["PFDATA"] ; PFDIR = getenv["PFDIR"]
    5  Then: AWKPATH = "C:/UnixUtils/usr/local/wbin"
    6  Then: putenv "AWKPATH",AWKPATH ; putenv "ZDOTPATH",AWKPATH
    7  Then: PATH = AWKPATH { ";" { getenv["PATH"]
    8  Then: putenv "PATH",PATH ; putenv "PS1","%/: " ; putenv "PS2","> "
    9  Then: SHELL = "C:/UnixUtils/bin/sh"
   10  Then: putenv "SHELL","sh"
   11  Then: CDPATH="C:/filepro;C:/fp;C:/UnixUtils/usr/local;C:"
   12  Then: putenv "CDPATH",CDPATH
   13  Then: putenv "EDITOR","vi"
   14  Then: LYNX_CFG = AWKPATH { "/lynx.cfg"
   15  Then: putenv "LYNX_CFG",LYNX_CFG
   16  Then: LESS="-eisz22fj3"
   17  Then: putenv "LESS",LESS
   18  Then: putenv "LOGNAME","bob"
   19  Then: DFLT = PFDATA { PFDIR { "/filepro" ; OLDPWD = getcwd()
   20  Then: show popup("5","-1") "\n Default is: \r" < DFLT < "\r \n "
   21  Then: input popup("10","-1") PWD "Work in what directory ?"
         If: PWD eq ""
   22  Then: PWD = DFLT
   23  Then: chdir PWD ; clearP ; cls
   24  Then: system "C:/UnixUtils/bin/sh.exe"
   25  Then: chdir OLDPWD
   26  Then: exit

I've tried everything else but changing the name of the
table, so I guess I'll try that when I get a Round TUIT.

Any ideas out there?

Bob

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