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diag
Copyright (c) 1994, The Software Construction Co. All rights
reserved.
The diag program has been developed to help you diagnose some of the
more common problems that we have encountered from our user
community. It may not solve all of your problems, but perhaps it
will find the problem for some users.
Test 1: chkdsk
==============
This test runs your computer's chkdsk command to look for problems on
your disk. Scan the output for reported errors from this utility.
See your MS-DOS manual for more information both on running the chkdsk
command as well as information on correcting any errors that may be
reported.
If the chkdsk command cannot be run, a warning will be displayed.
There is nothing particularly wrong with this. You, simply, will not
get the benefit of running the test.
Test 2: TMP environment variable
================================
Some of our programs use the value of the TMP environment variable to
tell where some temporary data files will be stored. While it is not
necessary for this environment variable to exist, it is necessary for
the directory it points to to exist. For example, if your
AUTOEXEC.BAT file has the following line:
SET TMP=C:\TEMP
the TEMP dirctory must exist on the C: drive.
A warning will be displayed if the TMP environment variable doesn't
exist. An error will be displayed if the directory described in the
value doesn't exist.
SOLUTION: Create the directory, change the definition of the TMP
environment variable, or remove the line altogether from
your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
Test 3: TEMP environment variable
=================================
Some of our programs use the value of the TEMP environment variable to
tell where some temporary data files will be stored. While it is not
necessary for this environment variable to exist, it is necessary for
the directory it points to to exist. For example, if your
AUTOEXEC.BAT file has the following line:
SET TEMP=C:\TEMP1
the TEMP1 dirctory must exist on the C: drive.
A warning will be displayed if the TEMP environment variable doesn't
exist. An error will be displayed if the directory described in the
value doesn't exist.
SOLUTION: Create the directory, change the definition of the TMP
environment variable, or remove the line altogether from
your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
Test 4: Duplicate environment variables
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The diag program checks each of the SET commands in your AUTOEXEC.BAT
file to determine that they are all unique. If a duplicate
environment variable is found, it will be reported as an error.
While, technically, this is not an error, it is probably not what you
want in your AUTOEXEC.BAT. Note that the value that is used by your
system is the last line setting the environment variable. In other
words, all but the final line wll be ignored.
A warning will be displayed if we cannot find your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
We expect to find it in the root directory of the current drive.
SOLUTION: Remove all but one of the duplicate SET command lines from
your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.