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- From: LES@sscl.uwo.ca
- Subject: Re: SUMMARY: LANSESS & WINDOWS 3.1 & DOS 5.0
- Organization: Social Science Computing Laboratory
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:21:55 GMT
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- Jim, the following sounds like something we need. I found files services
- very slow without Lansess.
-
- Les.
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- In article <4*egger@mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.dbp.DE> EGGER <egger@MPI-FG-KOELN.MPG.DBP.DE> writes:
- >Subject: SUMMARY: LANSESS & WINDOWS 3.1 & DOS 5.0
- >From: EGGER <egger@MPI-FG-KOELN.MPG.DBP.DE>
- >Date: 22 Dec 1992 07:22:34 -0500
- >Hello,
- >here is the promised summary of the answers to my question about how to
- >load lansess into EMS and still be able to use the 'EXIT TO DOS'- function
- >from within windows.
- >A few people mentioned not to use EMS at all to load PCSA components, but
- >we use it now for a few years and it works fine. On the other hand the
- >benefit you achieve in conventional memory is enormous and in some cases
- >you can't even run programs without that amount of memory.
- >Someone else gave the advice not to load lansess into EMS. That didn't fix
- >the problem. The PC still started to hang after you tried to return to
- >WIndows. In some cases i couldn't even use the USE- command.
- >P. Grieggs' wrote that one have to insert the
- >following statements in the [386ENH] section of the SYSTEM.INI.
- >
- > NETNoBlock=FALSE
- > DNETHeapSize=64
- >
- >So i tried this and it solved the problem. When I tried to find these
- >parameters in the Windows Resource Kit i failed. So i called Microsoft at
- >Munich, but they didn't even heard of those parameters and told me to call
- >DEC.
- >They explained why that fixes the problem, which wasn't unknown to them.
- >The NETNoBlock tells windows to ignore all changes to the environment of
- >that child-process that were made by such network task.
- >The function of DNETHeapSize was unknown to them, but they told me, that
- >there was a fix available. It consist of two files, DECNB.386 and
- >DECNET.386. This realy seems to solve the problem. None of the above
- >described entries in SYSTEM.INI is necessary.
- >At last i want to thank everyone who helped. Mery Christmas and a happy
- >new year.
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