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DOS5 and Windows - Problems

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From: dan
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 14:21
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	I've run into two problems running Windows 3.0 under DOS 5.0 that 
the folks at Microsoft are still scratching their heads over.  Any 
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

	1.  Windows will not give programs EMS if EMM386 is used with NOEMS

	It seems that HIMEM, EMM386, SMARTDRV, and RAMDRIVE were taken out 
of the Windows development group and handed over to the DOS folks for the 
new DOS release.  The DOS guys then made some changes that Windows doesn't 
quite approve of.
	Neither support group has any explaination for the above problem,
althought the Windows group did suggest that there was too much stuff being
loaded high for Windows to find a 64k page frame to use.  I've checked this
out, it's not the problem.  Anybody seen this on their machine? 

	2.  Logical drives setup by DRIVER.SYS do not appear in Windows.

	Again, neither support group has an explaination.  I've been
setting up an extra logical drive letter for my floppy (A:) to make floppy
to floppy transfers easier.  This works fine from DOS (COPY A:* D:*, etc.),
but the Windows File Manager will not recognize the logical drive.  It
doesn't even put up an icon for it.  What's really weird is that it does
show my RAMDRIVE logical so that I end up with icons for A:, B:, C:, and
_E:_, but no D:. Specifying the drive letter D: during a COPY or MOVE command
doesn't work either.  Any ideas? 


						Thanks, Dan.
						dan@wystan.bsd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: DOS5 and Windows - Problems
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