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Soft-ICE/W 1.0 README FILE
This file contains important information that is not in the user manual.
Most of this information concerns trouble shooting problems. Also see the
troubleshooting section of the Soft-ICE/W manual.
INSTALLING Soft-ICE/W ICONS
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A program called INSTALL.EXE on the release disk will automatically install
the icons for the Soft-ICE/W on a Soft-ICE/W menu. Copy all of the
files from the root directory of the distribution diskette to a sub-directory
on your hard drive, then run INSTALL.EXE from Windows by selecting FILE
followed by RUN from the program manager. When RUN prompts for the
file name, enter hard-disk-path\INSTALL.EXE.
RUNNING OUT OF MEMORY
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The default WINICE.DAT reserves 256K of symbol memory with the SYM
directive. If you do not need that much memory for symbols and source
you can reduce this.
LOADING MULTIPLE SYMBOL TABLES WITH THE LOAD DIRECTIVE
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This item concerns loading multiple files from the LOAD directive
in WINICE.DAT or from the WINICE /load switch. If an error is encountered
when loading one of the files, no further symbol table loading is done.
If there is a loading problem with one of the files, Soft-ICE/W
will prompt you for a key. You can press Ctrl C at this point to exit from
Soft-ICE/W back to DOS or press any key to continue. If you continue
then all further LOAD statements or /load switches will be ignored.
POPPING UP FROM A SERIAL TERMINAL
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If you are using Soft-ICE/W from a serial terminal, you should
place the COM keyword in WINICE.DAT. This will allow popping
up from the serial terminal. The syntax of the COM keyword is:
COMn = ON
Where n is 1, 2, 3 or 4 depending on which COM port will be
used. You can alternatively place the /COMn on the Soft-ICE/W
command line.
USING Soft-ICE/W ON NOVELL NetWare Networks
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When Soft-ICE/W is popped up, all system activity including interrupts
is halted. If Soft-ICE/W is popped up for more than 15 minutes the server
may disconnect your workstation from the network. Under most conditions
this timeout is long enough, but if it becomes a problem you can pop out
of Soft-ICE/W and back in every 10 minutes or so.
Under Netware 3.X, you can configure the server to increase its timeout with
one or more SET statements on the server's consol command line (these are
usually put in AUTOEXEC.NCF. The syntax of the SET statement is:
SET name = value
value is in seconds or in packets depending on the name.
There are 3 names that are appropriate:
1. "NUMBER OF WATCHDOG PACKETS"
limits: 5 to 100
default: 10
2. "DELAY BETWEEN WATCHDOG PACKETS"
limits: 9.9 seconds to 10 minutes 26.2 seconds
default: 59.3 seconds
3. "DELAY BEFORE FIRST WATCHDOG PACKET"
limits: 15.7 seconds to 20 minutes 52.3 seconds
default: 4 minutes 56.6 seconds
Example:
SET NUMBER OF WATCHDOG PACKETS = 100
If you enter this command on the server's command line, the
total timeout time to be increased from approximately
15 minutes to approximately 2 hours.
USING THE DEBUGGING VERSION OF WIN386.EXE
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If you are developing VxDs and using the debugging version of WIN386.EXE
you must use the /K switch on the WINICE command line or the KBD=TRUE
directive in WINICE.DAT. See APPENDIX B "Using Soft-ICE/W with the Windows
Debugging Kernel" in the reference guide for more information.
UNRELEASED VERSIONS OF WINDOWS
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Soft-ICE/W is only guaranteed to work, on Windows 3.0.
WLDR HANGING WHILE LOADING SOURCE
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There may be a memory window where WLDR will hang while loading source files.
If this occurs, increase the amount of symbol memory int the SYM directive
in WINICE.DAT.
VM MODE OR V86 MODE
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When in a DOS Virtual machine, Soft-ICE/W will display 'V86' in the line
above the code window. The reference guide states that 'VM' is displayed.
QEMM 6.0 USERS
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You can not use 'stealth' mode in QEMM 6.0 when using Soft-ICE/W. They are
being too stealthy, we can't find the video pointers.