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Re: Windows 95



In your message (Tue, 25 Apr 1995 20:00:38 -0400), you wrote:
>I am running the Final Beta of Windows 95 on a 486dx/2-50 with 12 megs of ram
>and cannot get E/D 1.99L to find the SCSI CD-ROM drive. Under DOS 6.2 and
>MSCDEX.EXE there wasn't a problem at all. I have tried running E/D from a DOS
>window as well as running Win95 in DOS mode. Has anyone found a similar
>problem? I have an NEC-25 cd-rom drive and a MediaVision ProAudio Spectrum 16
>card.

Sounds like Win95's DOS emulation is far from perfect...  I've had no 
problems with E/D under OS/2.

>Second, I cannot set the applzone higher than 2048 while running E/D in a DOS
>window. I get the message that I have run out of memory and to set applzone
>to a lower number. I can only set it higher when I run Win95 in DOS mode. Any
>suggestions?

Sounds like the DOS Window gets a certain amount of extended memory 
available to it.  If Win95 is anything like Warp, there will be a 
setting to increase the amount of extended emory available to the DOS 
window.

>Third, I cannot install Word 5.1 under E/D at all. I keep getting GPF errors
>and crash back to DOS. Any suggestions?

Pass

>Lastly, whenever E/D crashes with a GPF in a DOS window, I cannot restart
>Executor at all, either from the DOS prompt or when I close the window and
>try restarting Executor. I thought I would just pass this on. I have no idea
>if there is a bug in Win95 or E/D 1.99L.

That is probably because the crash has corrupted some Win95 internal 
control block, and you'll need to restart Win95.  In this respect 
Win95 is no better than Windows 3.x; many of the internal control 
blocks are still accessible by programs.  By contrast, they are not 
in NT, which is why NT is so much more stable.

Tim.



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