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Article #1887Re: DVANSI Help needed
From: Giles Todd
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:50
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:50
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In article <C1Bt7y.K7o@panix.com> bergman@panix.com writes: >Environment: > 486, DV386, Expert VGA card, MKS Toolkit > >I don't seem to be able to load dvansi.com in a window as >per the manual. Opening a MKS Kornshell shell window (my >normal environment) and then executing DVANSI.COM promptly >hangs the machine. No combination of DEVICE.COM statements >works: using DEVICE DVANSI in the window causes a complaint >about DVANSI being a block device that must be loaded in my >config.sys. Various combinations of DEVICE and DVANSI >statements in my config.sys either lock up the machine, >usually after appearing to dump the contents of the >executable to the screen and often producing Exception 13 >errors, or are simply rejected as incorrect statements. You need to put "dvansi" in your "~/etc/inittab" file. Running TSRs from the MKS shell prompt often results in grief. The best place for them is the aforementioned "inittab" file. Check out the manual page on "ulimit". Giles. -- Giles Todd gt@rundart.demon.co.uk (Internet) Rundart Ltd Demon Internet Services Voice: +44 925 33472 PGP 2.0 public key available.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview From: gt@rundart.demon.co.uk (Giles Todd) Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!rundart.demon.co.uk!gt Subject: Re: DVANSI Help needed Distribution: world References: <C1Bt7y.K7o@panix.com> Organization: Rundart Limited Reply-To: gt@rundart.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.19) Lines: 27 Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:50:52 +0000 Message-ID: <727836652snz@rundart.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk