Any differences in coding for Win2k vs WinNT??

[nyx]

Hi,

I'm having some troubles here and I thought maybe someone might be able to shed some light on it for me...

I just finished a program for my supervisor... I tested THE CRAP out of this thing and it worked pretty much close to perfect. Now this is under Win NT 4 workstation.

Now my supervisor he's running Win 2k Pro and he's telling me he's getting these wacky errors and "Runtime Error 5" messages. But I don't get any of that under workstation. Now am I missing something here? Is there some special things that need to be accounted for when running an app under win2k?

My program is VERY simplistic. it's by far not advanced. i don't make any references to dll's or anything super fancy or advanced like that. in a brief summary, it makes calls to some batch files, creates text files, reads the text files, then stores the info in an access database.

anyone have an generic/general ideas of why it would crash under win2k? am I correct in assuming that it should work under win2k though?

thanks for any help.

nick

[wayneh]

I've written a bunch of apps on NT and recently switched to Win2K.
I've noticed differences only when accessing some directories - things are moved around
quite a bit.

You may be getting a file/directory access error.

For example, on a base NT system, the C:\temp dir is the system temp and tmp dir as set up in
the environment.
However, on Win2K the temp and tmp dirs are in c:\winnt\temp by default.

Check out where things are located on your supervisor's machine...

[nyx]

hey,

thanks for the reply Wayneh. You know, he is getting the error when he is doing some file/directory queries... i'll look into that.

thanks again.

nick

[wayneh]

No problem - now if I could only get some answers for my questions!

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