Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 11:05:48 -0400
Reply-To: "Zuckier, Gerald" <Zuckier@CHIME.ORG>
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From: "Zuckier, Gerald" <Zuckier@CHIME.ORG>
Subject: Re: DDE and WORD 97
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Sounds like Word might have a memory leak, as we previously discussed at
length re SAS. Wouldn't be the first one in a Microsoft product.
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>From: Mark Bodt[SMTP:markbodt@STSS.CO.NZ]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 1997 5:07 PM
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>Subject: Re: DDE and WORD 97
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>Poster: Mark Bodt <markbodt@STSS.CO.NZ>
>Subject: Re: DDE and WORD 97
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>At 09:20 11/06/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>Along with the discussion of LOTUS 97 and DDE no longer functioning,
>>I thought it appropriate to mention I've had some problems with Microsoft
>>WORD 97 and DDE. It seems that they changed all the internal macro
>>language in WORD 97 to make it like visual basic. However, the DDE
>>commands still use the old word basic language, and the system seems to
>>be translating these commands as they are received from the client
>>application.
>>
>>This causes a slowdown in performance. Applications making heavy use
>>of DDE will now take more time.
>>
>>Also, there is no more help available on the old word basic commands.
>>This help was very valuable in putting together a DDE application in which
>>SAS communicated with WORD.
>>
>>I've also encountered another unexplainable problem. After WORD 97
>>processes a large number of commands, it suddenly stops working. The
>>SAS program reports an error. This is quite repeatable, and there is
>>nothing
>>wrong with the commands being sent. My application created some 150
>>WORD documents, and somewhere around number 28, the DDE link stopped
>>working. I could rerun the SAS job and restart at number 28 and it
>>would run
>>perfectly for another 28 reports and then blow up again. There are several
>>hundred DDE commands generated for each WORD document, so
>>there may be very few people who ever encounter this problem.
>>
>>Does anyone else have DDE related problems that should be brought to
>>our attention.
>>
>>Dean Bross
>>Department of Veterans Affairs
>>Dean.bross@mail.va.gov
>>202 273 8329
>>
> Dean,
> I have also found that DDE works with word 97 and without any changes
>to
>the Code used for word 6.0
>I have experienced a similar phenomenon to what you describe above. in
>this case it was with word 6.0
>The application generated some 300 documents containing between 3 and
>30
>pages each I found that after generating some 40 documents word would
>hang
>and would display an error message saying that there were insufficient
>file
>handles (or something to that affect). The config.sys had a setting
>of
>files = 150.
>This also did not make sense has between each document generated the
>document was closed, leaving no documents open. In the end I programed
>around this by closing word completely after generating about 30
>documents,
>then restarting word and continuing. This seems to have solved the
>problem
> although it has introduced a new one which is that when the program
>closes
>word I sometimes get a warning that word is still busy printing the
>document.
>
>Hope this helps
>
>Mark
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