Reviving DOS program that crashes on XP

[Mickey Segal]

A DOS program that ran fine on Windows 98 crashes on Windows XP with the
message "jar.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close". The error
information is very long, beginning with:
code: 0xc0000096

jar.exe is part of Sun's Java Development Kit 1.1.8, an old version need to
prepare Java applet code for an old environment (Macintosh OS 9) used by
some of our users. It appears that any program using Sun's JDK 1.1.8,
including appletviewer.exe, fail with the same error, so it appears there is
some compatibility problem involving the Java Runtime Environment in JDK
1.1.8 package.

I've tried setting individual *.exe files to run in Windows 98 compatibility
mode, without success. Running the commands from a command.exe window with
similar settings does not help either.

Is there some way to get such programs working? It would be a bother to
have to go back to Windows 98 every time we posted a new version of the
software. Is there some other Usenet group where one would be most likely
to find the experts on reviving such programs?

 

[Malke]

A DOS program that ran fine on Windows 98 crashes on Windows XP with
the
message "jar.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close". The
error information is very long, beginning with:
code: 0xc0000096

jar.exe is part of Sun's Java Development Kit 1.1.8, an old version
need to prepare Java applet code for an old environment (Macintosh OS
9) used by
some of our users. It appears that any program using Sun's JDK 1.1.8,
including appletviewer.exe, fail with the same error, so it appears
there is some compatibility problem involving the Java Runtime
Environment in JDK 1.1.8 package.

I've tried setting individual *.exe files to run in Windows 98
compatibility
mode, without success. Running the commands from a command.exe window
with similar settings does not help either.

Is there some way to get such programs working? It would be a bother
to have to go back to Windows 98 every time we posted a new version of
the
software. Is there some other Usenet group where one would be most
likely to find the experts on reviving such programs?

I'm sorry, but you've done excellent troubleshooting and you know the
answer: there is no true DOS in Windows XP so some DOS programs will
not run under this operating system. If you have had no luck with
Compatibility Mode, then you will need to either 1) dual boot; or 2)
keep a machine around running Win98 for this program.

Malke

 

[Mickey Segal]

I'm sorry, but you've done excellent troubleshooting and you know the
answer: there is no true DOS in Windows XP so some DOS programs will
not run under this operating system. If you have had no luck with
Compatibility Mode, then you will need to either 1) dual boot; or 2)
keep a machine around running Win98 for this program.

I've now also tried the following, without success:

1. Installed the Windows Application Compatibility Toolkit:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/appcompatibility/toolkit.mspx

2. Changed every *.exe files in the program to Windows 95 compatibility
mode.

If anyone has a great inspiration I'd be interested in hearing about it. Or
if anyone happens to know of another way of doing Sun JDK 1.1 signing on
Windows XP that would be an alternate solution. But it looks like we will
have to keep a Windows 98 computer around.