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Foundation F1.3/F1.4: LMACS and Btrieve errors and what to do about them!


Record #3395

Product Family:  Software

Product Line:  Aldec

Problem Title:
Foundation F1.3/F1.4:  LMACS and Btrieve errors and what to do about
them!



Problem Description:
Keywords:  lmacs, library, btrieve, hdr

Urgency:  Standard

General Description:

You may encounter various LMACS errors when using the
Foundation software.  Btrieve errors may also be issued with
these errors.

Most often, these errors are a result of conflicts associated
with the Btrieve software.  Btrieve is a Windows database
software program which is used by the Foundation Library
Manager.  Btrieve may also be used by other Windows software,
which are unrelated to the Foundation software.  If this other
software uses a different version of the Btrieve software than
the Foundation software uses, conflicts may exist, and LMACS
or Btrieve errors may be issued by Foundation.	Often, the
errors involve Foundation not being able to locate the proper
library files.




Solution 1:

Check your WINDOWS directory for any of the following files:

Wbt32res.dll
Wbtrcall.dll
Wbtrlocl.dll
Wbtrvres.dll
Wbtr32.exe

The Foundation install program writes the above files
to the c:\windows directory by default.

Search for the same .dll and/or .exe files in the
c:\windows\system directory.  If they are also found here,
there is a conflict between the differenct versions of
BTRIEVE on your PC.  Remove these files from
c:\windows\system.



Solution 2:

It is possible that there is an incompatible version of Btrieve
being loaded by Windows.  An easy way to attempt to resolve
this problem is to copy the Btrieve files directly from the
Foundation CDROM into the Windows directory.

F1.3
====
From the Foundation Design Entry Tools CD, go to the
ACTIVE\WINDOWS directory.
Copy the following files into the local Windows directory:
BTI.INI
WBT32RES.DLL
WBTR32.EXE
WBTRCALL.DLL
WBTRLOCL.DLL
WBTRVRES.DLL

F1.4
====
From the Foundation Design Entry Tools CDROM, go to the
FNDTN\ACTIVE\BTRIEVE directory, and copy the following all of
the files in that directory into the local Windows directory.



End of Record #3395