In article <1992Aug17.183516.1274@news.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
>Speaking of bugs, here is a really bad one: I am experiencing an inconsistent
>inability to run DOS sessions. I get sys0008, not enough memory. However, I
>have 16 MB (Well, 20 but only 16 are recognized by OS/2 :-() and over 100 MB
>free on the swapper partition, which always remains at 1048 Bytes!
>
>The support person said she thinks the problem is because I have COM2 and COM3,
>but not COM1! I think to myself, so? What is the relation? Anyway, I am
>beginning to wonder if I have some flakey cards, but OS/2 should really be
>giving me a more appropriate error message, then. Has anyone else had this
>problem with OS/2? I sometimes find myself unable to access my DOS programs,
>since my disk is formatted HPFS! This is quite unacceptable. Any ideas?
I had the same problem. I am using an ethernet card on IRQ3 (the default for
COM2). I was unable to run DOS programs until I removed the DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SYS line from CONFIG.SYS. Now, I have no problems. Hope this helps!
