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Re: BC++ help compiler/hypertext questions...

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From: Paul F Smith
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 16:29
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In article <TED.91Jun13080811@kuwait.gdfwc3> gdfwc3!ted@central.sun.com writes:
>In article <1991Jun10.203641.11153@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> psmith@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (Paul F Smith) writes:
>
>|   This next one may be a known bug, so my apologies, I can't afford
>|   to call MS and am hoping that a solution is available here:
>|
>|   3. When I run the help compiler with the COMPRESS=TRUE option
>|      I get an "Abort, Retry, Fail" message from SHARE.
>|
>|      I'm not on a network, I don't use SMARTDRV, FASTOPEN or anything
>|      else like that. Just QEMM386 and PC-CACHE, but I don't think they
>|      are the problem, as everything else works fine. 
>|
>|      If I tell it to ignore (several times) the compile finishes and
>|      the help file *appears* to be OK. Well, I haven't found a problem,
>|      yet! :-)
>
>I haven't used the hc yet, but have run in to similar problems running in
>386enh mode using large DOS volume.  If two applications are trying to
>access the same file (Word 5.5 and hc?) SHARE goes nuts.  Has the RTF file
>been closed by Word before openning with hc? Hope this helps.

Yes, the files is closed. I'm not working in windows or anything, just in
one program at a time. And, as I said it only happens when I use 
COMPRESS=TRUE. Other than that the procedure is the same.

Anyone else seen this?? Thanks.
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// psmith@ecn.purdue.edu                     //                   - My wife.
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From: psmith@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (Paul F Smith)
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Subject: Re: BC++ help compiler/hypertext questions...
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