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Re: DVANSI Help needed

#1887
From: Giles Todd
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.
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Giles Todd                      gt@rundart.demon.co.uk (Internet)
Rundart Ltd                     Demon Internet Services
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