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Article #2914Re: Windows USELESS with MSDOS 5.0!!!
From: Lloyd E Vancil
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 16:09
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 16:09
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In article <1991Jun13.235553.24042@netcom.COM> feustel@netcom.COM (David Feustel) writes:
>Now that I've got your attention, the problem is that Windows cannot
>find any of my non MS programs when I attempt to invoke them via the
>program manager. I've spent some time trying to get hold of MS to ask
>about this, but I can't get through and the $$$ are adding up. All of
>these programs start properly under PCDOS 3.3. Is it possible that MS
>didn't test dos 5.0 with windows?!!!
>--
>David Feustel, 1930 Curdes Ave, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, (219) 482-9631
>EMAIL: feustel@netcom.com or feustel@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu
Yesterday we had a MS traveling road show here. The lady had a compaq
slt386 running win3 and dos 5.0 it all worked good for her even if she
did not know the difference between extended/expanded ram....
I asked her about the conflicts between MSDOS and the older Pheonix
BIOS. She said she had "heard they got around it." |-[ Bah!
IF YOU ARE RUNNING A 286 WITH AN OLDER VERSION OF THE PHEONIX BIOS
YOU CAN HAVE ALL SORTS OF WIERD PROBLEMS.
ex. WIN.INI disappears (goes to 0 bytes) after editing it with
SYSEDIT. ANY attempt to recreate it, windows copy, dos copy,
rename, and copy all report successful but destination is 0
bytes.
THIS WAS CONFLICT WITH PHEONIX AND COMPAQ's MSDOS 3.31
ON RETURNING TO DOS 3.3.0 THE PROBLEMS WENT AWAY.
During my fight with this BS, I managed to get through to MS tech support
The tech there had seen my problem before -- I must'a been lucky ;-) --
recommended that I go back to 3.3.0 and warned me that I might have
probelms with "future versions of MSDOS" --This was 4 days prior
to the 5.0 announcement...........
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!suned1!slced1!lev From: lev@slced1.nswses.navy.mil (Lloyd E Vancil) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: Windows USELESS with MSDOS 5.0!!! Keywords: Windows MSDOS 5.0 Message-ID: <10702@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL> Date: 14 Jun 91 16:09:05 GMT References: <1991Jun13.235553.24042@netcom.COM> Sender: efb@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL Organization: NSWSES, Port Hueneme, CA Lines: 34