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Can You Help?

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From: Gary Burkey
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 00:00
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Hi,

I'm new to this newsgroup so apologies if I'm in the wrong place.

I have been using Kermit on my PC to remotely access our mainframe. I have
recently upgraded my PC to a HP Vetctra VL (P166MMX) with 47M Ram.  The
system has a sound card as well as a CD-ROM Drive, running Win 95.  When I
enter Kermit from the DOS prompt I instantly get a 'divide overflow'
message.

Two of my colleagues have identical systems excluding the MMX chip and
manage to run Kermit okay.  A third colleague has a Vectra VL (P166MMX)
minus the sound card and CD-ROM and also gets a 'divide overflow' message.

From this I conclude that it probably is the MMX chip causing the problem
(maybe Kermit cannot handle the increased processing speed).  I have not
found anyway of slowing the processor down.

Is there anyway that I can get around this problem?

Thanks in anticipation,

Gary B
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From: "Gary Burkey" <gary@cherokee.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Can You Help?
Date: 1998/02/02
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