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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Path: sparky!uunet!sdl!stu
- From: stu@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Stu Brown)
- Subject: Re: DR-DOS 6.0 and Permanent Swapfile - How to make it work
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.153416.13953@Warren.MENTORG.COM>
- Organization: Mentor Graphics, Silicon Design Division
- References: <1992Aug11.150651.16089@cci632.cci.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:34:16 GMT
- Lines: 20
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- From article <1992Aug11.150651.16089@cci632.cci.com>, by tvf@cci632.cci.com (Tom Frauenhofer):
- > I'm running Windows 3.1 under DR-DOS 6.0 (using the update for Windows 3.1
- > I found on the net). I was having trouble setting up a permanent swapfile
- > (I would always get the "permanent swapfile corrupt" screen with the query
- > if I would like to continue). Just for the heck of it I tried re-installing
- > Windows 3.1 as an update to itself. Wouldn't you know it, that fixed the
- > problem? I now have a working permanent swapfile.
- >
- > Just for the curious.
- > --
- > Thomas V. Frauenhofer, WA2YYW, tvf@cci.com, ...!uunet!uupsi!cci632!tvf
- > Mandlebratwurst: The Meal that Eats Itself!
-
- I had this problem, too. I fixed it by making sure I was NOT running
- SuperPCK whenever I created or changed the permanent swapfile.
- --
- Stuart Brown
- Mentor Graphics Corporation
- I.C. Group, Warren NJ
- stu@warren.mentorg.com or uunet!sdl!stu
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