I am running my EleBBS on a Windows XP machine, and I am using binkd to send and receive mail from my mail hub. In it's config, there is a statement that will execute my mail tosser (fastecho).

The problem is that I have been getting an annoying error that I cannot explain, nor correct. It says: "NTDVM has encountered a system error: the paramater is incorrect. Click close to terminate the application"

Then, I have a 'close' button and an 'ignore' button. The problem also freezes
the system till I make a choice, and I'm not around the computer most of the time it occurs.

Anyone familiar with this problem?

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I am running my EleBBS on a Windows XP machine, and I am using
binkd to send and receive mail from my mail hub. In it's
config, there is a statement that will execute my mail tosser
(fastecho).

The problem is that I have been getting an annoying error that
I cannot explain, nor correct. It says: "NTDVM has
encountered a system error: the paramater is incorrect. Click
close to terminate the application"

Then, I have a 'close' button and an 'ignore' button. The
problem also freezes the system till I make a choice, and I'm
not around the computer most of the time it occurs.

Anyone familiar with this problem?

can't say that i am... i run mine another way... i tell binkd to create a semaphore file when inbound mail is received... then i have a cron program fire
up a .bat file that looks for the semaphore... if its there, do the toss stuff... if not, exit the bat and wait till next round...

much easier and simpler...

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Monday February 02 2004 14:29, you wrote to All:

I am running my EleBBS on a Windows XP machine, and I am using binkd
to send and receive mail from my mail hub. In it's config, there is a statement that will execute my mail tosser (fastecho).

The problem is that I have been getting an annoying error that I
cannot explain, nor correct. It says: "NTDVM has encountered a system error: the paramater is incorrect. Click close to terminate the application"

Then, I have a 'close' button and an 'ignore' button. The problem
also freezes the system till I make a choice, and I'm not around the computer most of the time it occurs.

Anyone familiar with this problem?

Best I can think of is it's an XP issue. I've had problem after problem running
Dos 16bit software (with or without the 32bit memory model/DMPI) under XP. I picked up a copy of Win2k Pro on eBay for butt cheap and have never looked back. Not a hickup unless I goofed something up.

One thing you can look at. Check your c:\windows\system32\config.nt and c:\windows\system32\autoexec.nt files. See if they could be to blame.

I really do not recomend trying to run DOS 16bit software under XP though. It's
too much of a headache. You can likely get Win2k Pro for super cheap on eBay.


I just looked. There's an auction ending in just over 3 days. Used copy of 2k pro. Seller says he will do what it takes to legally transfer ownership to you.
Only $31 currently. The URL is:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3658476717&category=41885


If you are going to use Windows, use 2k. XP stinks. I have no experiences one wau or the other with 2k3 so I don't know.


Dan
Moderator BBS_SURVIVAL

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Anyone familiar with this problem?

can't say that i am... i run mine another way... i tell
binkd to create a semaphore file when inbound mail is
received... then i have a cron program fire up a .bat
file that looks for the semaphore... if its there, do the
toss stuff... if not, exit the bat and wait till next
round...

much easier and simpler...

Sounds like a better idea. Care to share the bat file and go into greater detail about the semaphore file creation?

Thanks.....

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Anyone familiar with this problem?

can't say that i am... i run mine another way... i tell
binkd to create a semaphore file when inbound mail is
received... then i have a cron program fire up a .bat
file that looks for the semaphore... if its there, do the
toss stuff... if not, exit the bat and wait till next
round...

much easier and simpler...

Sounds like a better idea. Care to share the bat file and go
into greater detail about the semaphore file creation?

in the binkd config...


flag x:\\fd\\semaphor\\mail-in.sem *.su? *.mo? *.tu? *.we? *.th? *.fr? *.sa? *.pkt *.tic


that's all on one line... it'll create the semaphore file (mail-in.sem) if it receives any of those extensions...

the .bat file... hummm... how about something similar? what i have is rather large and intricate do to the way i process everything...


@echo off
os2title in.bat start
:top
if exist %fdsema\tossing.sem goto end
if exist %fdsema\fdinsess.* goto end
if exist %fdsema\maint.sem goto end
if exist %fdsema\scanning.sem goto end

%fdsema\fdnoscan.now
%fdsema\tossing.sem

os2title in.bat 10sec
wait 10
echo.
echo Tossing INBOUND Mail...
rem *************************
rem ** i spawn "fastech2 afix" for areafix messages
rem ** i generate a new areas.bbs file with "fesetup -XA"
rem ** i use SPAZ to pull out the PKTs from the bundles
rem ** i check the PKTs for y2k complient message dates and fix bad ones
rem ** any other PKT scans like GMD or NOBOGUS can be run here
rem ** now i spawn "fastech2 toss -B -C"
if errorlevel 11 rem>%fdsema\dolink.sem
rem ** NETMGR gets a run
rem ** OTTRACK gets a run
rem ** i spawn "feutil2 import" to import netmail into the bbs
if not exist %fdsems\dolink.sem goto feh
rem ** i spawn "feutil2 link -force"
rem ** gather some stats
rem ** update timed's config with any new message areas
del %fdsema\dolink.sem
:feh
del %fdsema\tossing.sem
:end


yes, there's a lot of "fd" in there... why? because i've integrated binkd into my existing FrontDoor setup... its not pretty but it is functional and works for what i need... somewhere up there, i check if there are any TIC files and if so, i fire up allfix to handle that stuff...

the "spawn" sections are due to the .bat file running in a DOS task and firing up native OS/2 flavors of the utils...

yes, its not windows but the idea process is still the same -=B-)

)\/(ark


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