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Conference abbott::teamlinks_windows

Title:TeamLinks for Windows
Notice:Kit and ECO locations: See replies to note 8.o note 8.
Moderator:ORION::chayna.zko.dec.com::tamara::eppesAN
Created:Mon Aug 28 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2238
Total number of notes:9650

2103.0. "GPF in VBRUN300.DLL when creating" by KERNEL::BURDENI () Thu Apr 03 1997 06:38

    I have recently had a couple of customers who are getting the following
    symptoms, when trying to create a message in teamlinks V2.7 they get :
    
    general protection fault 
    "x400 mail caused a general protection fault in module vBrun300.dll"
    
    Previously as a wild stab in the dark, I had a customer install the
    ECO1 patch and the problem cleared.  Unfortunately this has not worked a
    second time.
    
    I have had the customer check for duplicate DLL files and he says that
    there are none, though I am not sure if all the files have been
    checked.  He has checked the date and size of VBRUN300.DLL and this
    seems OK. (Previous note suggested a corrupt VBRUN file).
    
    Can anyone suggest the prime suspects ?
    Or does anyone have any further ideas on how to troubleshoot this ?
    Has anyone experienced and fixed similar problems before ?
    
    Software :
    
    WFW 3.11 
    TL 2.7 ECO1 - Only one PC has the problem, and this was upgraded from v2.5
    ALL-IN-1 v3.2
    Server node is an Alpha running Openvms 6.1 
    The PC transport used is DECnet
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2103.1Freeware utility to search for duplicate DLLs on a PC.XANADU::flymht.zko.dec.com::TAMARA::STJEANBob St.JeanThu Apr 03 1997 18:3225
You said that you were not sure if all the possible duplicate
DLLs had been found and this caused me to remember an opinion
article that I recently read in February 24, 1997 edition of
InfoWorld.

In Brian Livingston's column, entitled "A new weapon exists
in the battle of duplicate DLLs" he describes a freeware program
called FindDups.  "This utility, called FindDups.Exe, searches all 
your hard drives for DLLs with the same name.  It then displays a 
table with all instances of all duplicate DLLs, sorted by name.
... FindDups doesn't flag duplicate DLLs that exist in the System
and Sysbckup Folders.  It knows that Windows 95 uses Sysbckup
to refresh any essiential System DLLs that are changed or corrupted."

I just downloaded it and tried it.  It seems to work very nicely.
Double clicking on a duplicate file name it found opens an Explorer
window focused on that folder and file.

The FindDups program can be downloaded from:

http://www.infoworld.com/pageone/opinions/livingst/finddups.zip

HTH,
Bob
2103.2Nice tool - any other help ??KERNEL::BURDENIFri Apr 04 1997 05:015
    What a handy piece of software. Unfortunately it seems to access
    violate before it finishes on my PC, however it worked fine on a
    colleagues.
    
    Thanks for that - nice one.
2103.3TAMARA::CUMMINGSJerry Cummings, TeamLinksFri Apr 04 1997 15:334
Is it reproducible? If so, what steps? Sometimes a
CFCDEBUG log can yield some info too.

Jerry
2103.4Only WIN95KERNEL::BURDENIMon Apr 07 1997 08:474
    This FINDDUPS software only works on WIN95 and not WFW 3.11, I
    understand why, but do we have any idea if there is another version of
    this software somewhere could someone let me know.
    Cheers
2103.5I sent your questions in.XANADU::cascobay.zko.dec.com::TAMARA::STJEANBob St.JeanMon Apr 07 1997 12:2810
RE: .2 & .4

I sent mail to the person who wrote the column in InfoWorld to see
if there are restrictions to FindDups that might explain that
crash.  I also asked if there is a version of it for Widnows 3.1.  It
might be a Win32 program.  This is only freeware afterall, so you
get whatever the author has time to do.

Bob