CONTACTS 
0201 - Dep Natrl Recrs & Consrvtn         406 444 6699 fax 6721
020101 - Mr. Wayne Wetzel; Deputy Director =406 444 6722; Director's Office

SUBJECTS
SDS Reports, Subjects
251 Pointer Update routine
Subjects
Windows to open multiple SDS environments
File Access System, F1 F3
Configuration
Dell Pentium 100, 1 GB 16 MB RAM
Memory Management
SDS Reports Slow under Windows
SDS Reports Slow Improved with Buffers=99 Under W95

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1313 - Summary/Objective
1314 -
131401 - Follow up ref SDS 11 0000, ref SDS 10 0000.
131402 -
131403 - Found the problem was lack of buffers=99 in config.sys.
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1317 - Discussion
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131801 - We checked the path and it shows
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131803 -                  c: sd 01
131804 -                  c: 01 02
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131806 - He is showing nothing found with the File Access screen.  We fixed
131807 - this when I was there last time, ref SDS 3 line 123.
131808 - ..
131809 - Using debug we found that the record selection and sorting
131810 - operation was not executing with following type of commands:
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131812 -  DoS /c s i 360 cr;no-r;s d:\sd\08\UUUUU\TT\YY\__;o 1Y___ k-out;no-o;cf 1z
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131814 - No output file is being produced.
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131816 - We were able to get this to execute correctly when it is put in a
131817 - separate Medit file and executed alone.  This suggested a memory
131818 - management problem.
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131820 - One solution would be to slow down execution of consequtive DOS calls,
131821 - as was tried successfully in seeming to fix the File Access routine on
131822 - 970711. ref SDS 3 5K6G
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131825 - We noticed there is no buffers statement in Wayne's config.sys file,
131826 - so we added the same statement that is in my config.sys file,
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131829 -                              buffers=99
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131832 - This solved the problem.
131833 -
131834 -     [On 970804 buffers did not solve problem with 251.bat operation
131835 -     for building global pointers on c08. ref SDS 12 0001
131836 -
131837 -     [On 970805 diskcaching tried in os2. ref SDS 13 0001
131838 -
131839 -     [On 970904 problem building global pointers was video driver
131840 -     conflict. ref SDS 14 B4ER; different from Wayne's problem today
131841 -     of reading pointers to do a report.
131842 -
131843 -     [On 980430 Wayne had same problem requiring buffers=99 on new
131844 -     computer. ref SDS 15 9200
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131846 -     [On 010202 problem on c13 under w2k and faster environment was
131847 -     with Supersort reading the global pointer file. ref SDS 16 QL5K
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