Mif2Go suddenly failing on all machines

Thu Aug 14 15:17:42 PDT 2014

Hi, John.

This is a complete SWAG here.

Maybe it is unable to run the program “DCL.EXE” which is in the  <omsyshome>\Omsys\system\common\bin folder (of course, <omsyshome> is likely different for you).

So, have you made sure that your search path in Windows is set to include the <omsyshome>\Omsys\system\common\bin folder, perhaps (and that the dcl.exe file is present in that folder … although I think you said you checked this already)?

You can verify this by using a Windows Command Prompt to see if you can manually execute that program, or it says it is not recognized.

Here is the example from my system (which is my own DOS program that emulates the Unix equivalent ☺ … if you want a copy, please let me know).

C:\>which dcl
C:\home\Omsys\common\bin\dcl.exe

C:\>foobar
'foobar' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\>dcl
usage: dcl [-abx] [-lmp] [-v] [-f format] [-s source] [-t target] [-o output] files...
  DCL format: -a ascii, -b binary, -x XDCL
  Endianness: -l little-endian (Intel), -m big-endian, -p PDP
  Verbosity: -v verbose
  Format: -f code, as in -f D for DITA; codes are:
    RTF: W Word, 8 Word8 up, P WordPerfect, H WinHelp4, 3 WinHelp3
    *ML: N HTML, X XHTML, G XML, D DITA, B DocBook, M MS HTML Help,
      C OmniHelp, E Eclipse Help, J JavaHelp, O Oracle Help for Java
  Source: -s dcl, dcb, dcx, mif, lst, xml
  Target: -t dcl, dcb, dcx, rtf, htm, xml
  Output: -o .ext, -o \path, or -o \path\file.ext

If the command is unable to find the dcl program, then you may have a Windows path that is missing the Omsys common bin folder. After you add it in, please do make sure to log out and log back in for the environment variables to get read again.

Hope this helps!

Z

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of John Sgammato
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 2:40 PM
To: Fei Min Lorente
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Mif2Go suddenly failing on all machines

Here's the latest, after an afternoon of research (= banging my head against the wall):

 *   The project fails almost immediately, with this error:
Mif2Go failed for file: C:\Project\Users_Roles.html type 1, code 2, at: Wed Aug 13 15:46:36 2014
Could not run DCL filter or other program. File not found.
 *   All Mif2Go files are present and in the right places following an uninstall and fresh install from new ZIP. This means I do not know what file cannot be found.
 *   I get the same failure even for projects that succeeded earlier in the day, with the same previously-successful ini files.
 *   I have used (and resolved issues with) Mif2Go for 10 years, so I know how things should look - they look OK.
 *   The save process generates good MIFs. I get the same error for each file, with the option to quit. If I do not quit, it makes a mif for the next file and then I get the error again. Mif2Go.ini increments normally for each file generated.
 *   If I push through to the end, it generates all the MIFs but it does not clean them up and it generates no output, nor the _wrap folder.
 *   The history and the log file look normal.
 *    All the Mif2Go exe & dll files have full write permissions, including the two new ones in \fminit\Plugins.
And remember that the whole system worked flawlessly for two big books before failing on the third, much smaller book just an hour later.
I appreciate any ideas!

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Fei Min Lorente <FeiMin.Lorente at onsemi.com<mailto:FeiMin.Lorente at onsemi.com>> wrote:
Nope, sorry, I should have mentioned. I’m on FM10, Windows 7, using Mif2Go V4U54.

Fei Min

From: John Sgammato [mailto:john.sgammato at actifio.com<mailto:john.sgammato at actifio.com>]
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 1:15 PM
To: Fei Min Lorente
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: Re: Mif2Go suddenly failing on all machines

Are you on FM12?
There were two new DLLs in FMINIT/Plugins for FM12.

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Fei Min Lorente <FeiMin.Lorente at onsemi.com<mailto:FeiMin.Lorente at onsemi.com>> wrote:
Hi John:

I just did a Save Using Mif2Go on an old tried and true manual, and everything worked just fine.

Fei Min

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I'd be very grateful if a few of my colleagues here could try a quick
mif2go save and see if you get the DCL not found error.
On Aug 13, 2014 6:15 PM, "Lin Sims" <ljsims.ml at gmail.com<mailto:ljsims.ml at gmail.com>> wrote:

> And if you do find a fix, let us know, just in case someone else runs into
> the same issue.
>
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> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Scott Prentice <sp10 at leximation.com<mailto:sp10 at leximation.com>>
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>>  If you don't get anything here, you might try the new mif2go list ..
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>>     https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mif2go/info
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>> ...scott
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>>  On 8/13/14 12:53 PM, John Sgammato wrote:
>>
>> Yesterday I was generating a bunch of XHTML output with Mif2Go, when
>> suddenly I started to fail with this error:
>> Mif2Go failed for file: C:\Project\Users_Roles.html
>> type 1, code 2, at: Wed Aug 13 15:46:36 2014
>> Could not run DCL filter or other program.
>> File not found.
>>
>>  It had worked fine just an hour before. Nothing had changed.
>> Nonetheless I rechecked all my environment variables and other common
>> issues; they were all good.
>> Restarting the machine did not fix it. A complete uninstall/reinstall of
>> Mif2Go did not fix it.
>> Today is does not work on two different computers with different files.
>>
>>  Is anyone else experiencing this?
>> It's as if my license has been revoked or some similar global denial of
>> service.
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