: >severe Wintalk crashes? Is there a latest version that's better? I really
: >love having it running, but this is just insane. any comments/suggestions?
I have had similar hard drive problems with Windows crashes. You can go a
long way toward preventing file destruction if you do the following:
1. If you are using Smartdrv, disable the write-cache entirely. It really
doesn't help all that much anyway.
2. Most importantly change your swap file from permanent to temporary (you
do this in the 386 icon on the control panel). Apparently some drives
(I have a SCSI drive) don't interact well with the permanent swap file.
This is true *despite* what Microsoft claims. (they recommend using
double-buffer in the smartdrv config sys to help with these problems, however
that option really slows down your machine). It isn't the app that
wiped out your disk, rather it is the crash in combination with
an unstable swap file.
BTW someone at Corel told me that the most efficent swap file size is
100% of your memory size, not larger. I changed mine, but haven't seen
any change.
--
Bob | If you put all net users end-to-end
| you would quickly learn who was
| wearing clean socks.
From news@bigblue.oit.unc.edu Fri Mar 25 18:13:51 1994
Received: from bigblue.oit.unc.edu by SunSITE.Unc.EDU (5.65c+IDA/FvK-1.07) with SMTP
id AA20016; Fri, 25 Mar 1994 13:48:33 -0500
Received: by bigblue.oit.unc.edu (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03)
id AA19295; Fri, 25 Mar 1994 13:36:27 -0500
Received: from GATEWAY by bigblue with netnews
for winsock@sunsite.unc.edu (winsock@sunsite.unc.edu)
To: winsock@sunsite.unc.edu
Date: 25 Mar 94 18:13:51 GMT
From: holck@student.physics.upenn.edu (Christopher M. Holck-3E5-x4537)
Message-Id: <holck.764619231@student>
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Sender: ses
References: <Cn7psG.E7F@bbc.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Xwindows for pc?
boyer@rd.eng.bbc.co.uk (John Boyer) writes:
>Two questions.
>First what do I need to set up an xwindows terminal from a pc?
>What freebie progs are there around?
>John B
>John.boyer@rd.eng.bbc.co.uk
I think I can answer the second question. At ftp.cica.indiana.edu there is a porgram called xwindemo.zip in the /pub/pc/win3/dem sub-directory. This is what you want I think. There are patches to update this program at bart.starnet.com. They are xwin287b.exe and xwin286.exe and are in the /pub directory.
Unfortunately, I just got these programs a few days ago myself so I haven't go them to work yet. If any one can give me advice on how to get it to work I would be very happy. Thanks in advance!
Chris Holck
holck@student.physics.upenn.edu
From news@bigblue.oit.unc.edu Fri Mar 25 08:04:08 1994
Received: from bigblue.oit.unc.edu by SunSITE.Unc.EDU (5.65c+IDA/FvK-1.07) with SMTP
id AA20109; Fri, 25 Mar 1994 13:49:19 -0500
Received: by bigblue.oit.unc.edu (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03)
id AA12166; Fri, 25 Mar 1994 13:22:02 -0500
Received: from GATEWAY by bigblue with netnews
for winsock@sunsite.unc.edu (winsock@sunsite.unc.edu)
To: winsock@sunsite.unc.edu
Date: 25 Mar 1994 13:04:08 -0500
From: gub@asylum.sf.ca.us (Glen Daniels)
Message-Id: <2mv92o$im@asylum.sf.ca.us>
Organization: ELF Communications
Sender: ses
References: <2mt3n2$2ps@netnews.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: WINTALK SCREWED MY SYSTEM!!!
In article <2mt3n2$2ps@netnews.upenn.edu> alwang@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Claire Phagin) writes:
>Wintalk promptly gave me a runtime error, which, frankly, didn't bother
>me much because it happens so regularly. Next Trumpet crashed, which still
>came as no suprise. THEN, Windows exited itself and rebooted my computer.
> [hard disk got trashed, etc...]
WinTalk seems to stretch winsock implementations in ways that,
although correct, sometimes provoke bad interactions. It is important
to keep up-to-date on both WinTalk (the current version is 1.1) and
your winsock. For instance, Trumpet winsock v1.0A is known to be
incompatible with WinTalk, due, I believe, to an ICMP-handling bug.
If you're running this version, that's the reason for your winsock
crashes. Generally, though, even when Trumpet bites it, it goes away
pretty cleanly... I have never seen anything like the crash you
describe. I'd still strongly recommend picking up the latest Trumpet
v1.0B (beta 2?) at petros.psychol.utas.edu.au, and the latest wintalk
from elf.com.
What else were you running when the crash happened? Were you working
on other things, or was Windows just idling? Do you have a Windows
swap file living on the stacker partition? It could be that Windows
was *just* in the wrong place writing it's swap file when the winsock
crash occured - but if something like that ended up wiping your hard
drive (or more likely confusing Stacker) I'd be suspicious of
Stacker's critical section handling.... Did you try any of the
disk-reconstruction utilities that hopefully came with Stacker before
reformatting?
You also mentioned frequent runtime errors from WinTalk - could you
detail these? What did the error boxes say, and what was the error
code?
--
--Gub (Glen Daniels, ELF Communications)
"Gotta go inside, back where it started;
Back to the beginning, 'cause that's where my heart is."
From karenm@jsbus.com Fri Mar 25 03:05:02 1994
Received: from jsbus.jsbus.com (jsbus.com) by SunSITE.Unc.EDU (5.65c+IDA/FvK-1.07) with SMTP
