Monitor issues with ACCPAC Program

[pharback]

New to ACCPAC.

Today I came in and one of the user had a problem with ACCPAC. 1st the use has a flat screen, laptop, and a replicator.

What is going on is that when the user goes into ACCPAC, the monitor goes blank, no signal, but the laptop monitor is showing ACCPAC. When ACCPAC is switched back to the windows screen then both the Monitor and Laptop monitor is visible.

Is there any idea how to fix this problem. Is it a problem that ACCPAC produces.

Thanks,
Pharback

 

[EtienneG]

Which version of ACCPAC?

 

[pharback]

6.1A

 

[EtienneG]

I am assuming this is ACCPAC Plus (DOS version)?

Try adding the parameter /v3 after the plus.exe command that starts the system. Let us know the results.

 

[pharback]

How do you do that?

And yes it is PLUS (DOS Version)

 

[jayconverse]

It's because Etienne is an old fart. He probably remembers Accpac Plus version 4.5. ;-)

Jay Converse
IT Director
Systemlink, Inc.

 

[EtienneG]

Old fart" - gmpphhhh! That does it - any beer on the cruise I promised you will be on you.

LOL, yes I do! I wrote my first ACCPAC application (an Estate Agent system) for IUS (later ACCPAC) for version 4 in 1989.

But I was only 14 then...

Oh, and that's pretty rich coming from Jay, who I got to know from ACCPAC back then too! Mobil OIl, eh?

 

[pharback]

I am glad that you two are able to remeber old time, but what about my question.

How do I do this?

EtienneG said (Try adding the parameter /v3 after the plus.exe command that starts the system. Let us know the results.)

Pharback

 

[jayconverse]

Let's see, I wrote my first program in 1973, but I was 16 then. And Accpac in '89, too.

Here's to us old farts!

---------------------------------------------------------

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.


As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.




We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no internet or internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!




We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little league had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS! Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!



Jay Converse
IT Director
Systemlink, Inc.

 

[jayconverse]

Oh, you just edit the batch file that starts PLUS.

Jay Converse
IT Director
Systemlink, Inc.

 

[EtienneG]

ROTFLMAO @ Jay.

pharback - How do you fire up ACCPAC? BAT file? Icon? Somewhere there is a command that says PLUS.EXE. Just add /v after that and start up ACCPAC.

You can also open a DOS session, find PLUS.EXE and type in PLUS.EXE /? to get a list of command parameters.

Etienne

 

[pharback]

I found out that the shortcut was causing this problem. When opening Accpac from the shortcut, I get the same error as before where the screen loses signal, but when I start the program from the orginal bat file then the screen is shown on both screens.

This message is shown before accpac opens when opening the program from the shortcut rather than the bat file that is on the server:

January 25, 2005

'\\ZEUS\Dfs\Accpac\USERS\username'
CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory.

C:\WINDOWS>net use lpt3: \\COPIER\PCL6
The command completed successfully.


C:\WINDOWS>p:

P:\>cd\

P:\>PLUS /C\OEASP /sp:\users\username /up:\users\username /pp:\users\username

January 26, 2005

'\\ZEUS\Dfs\Accpac\USERS\username'
CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory.

C:\WINDOWS>net use lpt3: \\COPIER\PCL6
The command completed successfully.


C:\WINDOWS>p:

P:\>cd\

P:\>PLUS /V/C\OEASP /sp:\users\username /up:\users\username /pp:\users\username


Thanks for all your Help.
Pharback

 

[pharback]

Here is my bat file for ACCPAC!

net use lpt3: \\COPIER\PCL6
p:
cd\
PLUS /V/C\OEASP /sp:\users\username /up:\users\username /pp:\users\username
net use lpt3: /del

Phaback

 

[EtienneG]

Put a space after the /V. Also, your currency files lie in the OE program directory - will work but this is odd and personally I don't like data and program files mixed up since it complicates just about everything.