Run-time error (R6009)

[Doug]

After loading a file recovery program, I tried the next
day to load my DOS based database program.

It will not load and it states

Run-time error R6009 Not enough envirnoment space

So far all of my other Window base programs are loading
okay.

Please help and thank you in advance

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Doug;

Did it run before??

This program may NOT run in a Windows environment.

You may have to this:
1. Put the software onto a floppy, if it isn't already.
2. Make a Dos boot disk
3. Reboot the computer so that it boots up in Dos
4. Run the software from the disk.


SMS: Runtime Error R6005 or R6009 During Inventory
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;188549

SMS: "Out of Environment Space" Error Message
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;202010

 

[Alex Nichol]

After loading a file recovery program, I tried the next
day to load my DOS based database program.

It will not load and it states

Run-time error R6009 Not enough envirnoment space

For best DOS resources, edit the windows\system32\config.nt and
autoexec.nt files.

In config.nt have (apart from the large number of REM lines) just
EMM = B=4000 RAM
(note the exact spaces - either side of the first = and before RAM,
none next to the second =) and

dos=high, umb
device=%SystemRoot%\system32\himem.sys
files=40
(or higher files= if needed)

and in autoexec.nt have

REM Install DPMI support
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx

with other earlier lh lines REM ed out, and then any SET or PATH lines
that may already be present at the end.

This should give about 612K for a program, run from a shortcut made to
its .exe file. R-click the shortcut, Properties and on the Memory page
you can set an explicit value - rather than Auto - for any EMM or XMS
memory it may need, and - the one you want - for initial environment
space