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egb@argosy.UUCP (Ed Bradford) writes:

>I have just installed MS-DOS 5.0 and everything works find EXCEPT windows 3.0.
>Even it works find EXCEPT in standard mode:
>	win /s
>Since PC-NFS doesn't work in enhanced mode, I am stuck. Anyone else out there
>have this problem? I got 627K of memory back using all the umb stuff and it
>all seems to work fine, except this little gotcha. Solutions would be
>appreciated. Either post to news or send mail to me directly.

Any chance you're running EMM386 to get access to the UMB's?  If so, there
is a documented restriction (which Microsoft will hopefully fix someday)
which says that if EMM386 is running then Windows standard mode will not
work.  Real and enhanced mode will work OK, but EMM386 and standard mode
get into a fight over who controls protected mode.  Standard mode Windows
will abort during startup with an error complaining about some other
program running in protected mode (I don't recall the exact error text).

Joe Morris