Re: 8 character limit?
From: cquirke (MVP Win9x) (cquirkenews_at_nospam.mvps.org)
Date: 12/18/04
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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:11:29 +0200
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:10:50 -0800, Malke <malke@nospoonnotreally.com>
>Tony wrote:
>> I have the same problem. I was yesterday able to log on by rebooting
>> hitting F8 and booting to a last known good startup and it worked.
>> But it appears that I have the same problem again.
>>
>> "efx/ShiPon" <sergio.barrios@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>I have this computer w/ winxp pro under a w2k server the last day i
>>>was able to log on it was wednesday night.
>>>
>>> Yest when i just got to work and tried to log my machine said "the
>>> program issued a command but the command length is incorrect", and
>>> after a while of resets, several different users, local administrator
>>> access, nothing happened i couldnt log at all.
Google on "the program issued a command but the command length is"
gets plenty of hits! Such as...
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci990463,00.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Operating_System_error_codes.html
All very well, but most hits are like this; just a list of error
codes. Not much rational discussion, so it seems as if it'snot a
common issue. One was a Pace dongle problem....
<paste>
Technical Tip Of The Day Help with Waves updates on your PC.
We've seen a few customers experience problems getting the new
versions of their Waves plug-ins installed on their PC's due to some
anomalies with the PACE copy protection. Part of the problem is that
you need a current version of the PACE driver. You also need to use 11
of fewer characters in the name of your hard drive. If you've had
trouble getting it going try following these basic steps. They will
help get you past the parts that are most likely to trip you up.
Before you start, remember that the drive "Label"/name that you are
installing to can NOT be longer than 11 characters. You will get the
error, "The program issued a command but the command length is
incorrect." If your drive Label is too long.
</paste>
Affirms the rule: Avoid vandorware wherever possible :-)
It seems to be an uncommon error that wells up from the bowels of some
app that uses that particular dev environment.
>You've been struggling with this for a while. Unfortunately, I don't
>have a definitive answer for you, but I do have two suggestions:
>1. Since more than one person has recently posted this unusual error on
>the newsgroups, it would be smart to scan the computer with a current
>antivirus using updated definitions.
Always a good idea - in fact, do the whole of "the prelim":
http://cquirke.mvps.org/9x/bthink.htm
>Do your scan in Safe Mode (if you can get to Safe Mode).
Do a formal scan if you can. Safe Mode isn't; though it's safer than
normal mode, it cannot be counted on to suppress malware.
>Whenever strange errors start popping up in the MS newsgroups,
>it usually means some new malware is on the loose.
Yep!
>Good luck - and if you do find the solution, it would be great if you
>would post it so we could all learn.
Amen to that :-)
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Running Windows-based av to kill active malware is like striking
a match to see if what you are standing in is water or petrol.
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