[Ifeffit] Minor bugs in the new versions

[Bruce Ravel]

On Wednesday 28 April 2004 05:20 am, Schmithals wrote:
>  >>Athena 0.8.027
>  >>- Athena does not start when Artemis is running. Two new Windows will
>  >>show up for a moment in the taskbar and disappear again, no error logs
>  >>are written to the stash-folder. No problems occur if Artemis is not
>  >>running. Also Artemis will not start when Athena is running.
>  >
>  > This is almost certainly a memory management problem -- an unfortunate
>  > confluence of the memory model in windows 2K and the fact that Ifeffit
>  > is written in fortran and statically allocates a large amount of
>  > memory.  I believe the only solutions are to use only one at a time or
>  > to put more memory in your computer.
>
> Well, I have 265MB RAM. But it did work with the previous versions.
> These are the error messages when I try to start Athena when Artemis is
> running and vice versa:
>
> c:\Programme\Ifeffit>athena.bat
> Ifeffit checked for updates recently.
> Can't load 'auto/Ifeffit/Ifeffit.dll' for module Ifeffit: load_file:Das
> angegebe
> ne Modul wurde nicht gefunden at /PerlApp/DynaLoader.pm line 212.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at athena line 59.
>
> c:\Programme\Ifeffit>artemis.bat
> Ifeffit checked for updates recently.
> Can't load 'auto/Ifeffit/Ifeffit.dll' for module Ifeffit: load_file:Das
> angegebe
> ne Modul wurde nicht gefunden at /PerlApp/DynaLoader.pm line 212.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at artemis line 53.
>
> ("Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden at.." means: "The specified
> modul was not found at ..")

First off, thanks for the translation!

My answer is essentially the same.  Either there is a memory conflict
or the running program is putting a lock on the Ifeffit.dll file.

Hopefully someone out who knows more about Windows than I do can
comment on this....

B

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