overflow error in VB3 application on XP

[steve51328]

I have a large VB3 app which has behaved itself for 8 years thru windows 3.1 all the way up to XP SP1.

All of a sudden some users are reporting an 'overflow' error and shutdown of the application.

The program, while large, has nothing extreme... no data base, no comms... it is simply reading/creating text files and doing computation. The only thing out of the ordinary is that I use the GSW graphics (16 bit) add-on.

The overflow error seems to be occuring during simple file, dir$ -type operation, not during graphics.

I wonder if anyone has heard of something similar happening and how it can be avoided. The program has been installed and runs sucessfully in well over 1000 instalations for many years.

I am mystified.

 

[martel23]

Hi Steve

I am experiencing the similar problems as well. Although I dont have the source code for this program.

Some have hinted that it may be do with the size of the disk drive being so much larger than before. Any calcuations done with only a 2 or 3 gig drive in mind.

I have a simlar old application that is returning not enough disk space .. the drive this app is writing to is only 2% used.

I am going to partition the drive down to a smaller size tommorrow and see what happens ..

 

[tviohl]

Hi all,
I have the same problem and wanted to know if anybody had success in fixing this?

Any further ideas?

Thank you
-- Thomas