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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Missing WINA20.386
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.171429.8411@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Aug04.145658.9814@convex.com> <713269086snx@zenos2.nsg.com.au> <clangst.714626164@pv1793.vincent.iastate.edu>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:14:29 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- In <clangst.714626164@pv1793.vincent.iastate.edu> clangst@iastate.edu (Chris Langston) writes:
-
- >In <713269086snx@zenos2.nsg.com.au> terrym@zenos2.nsg.com.au (Terry McCracken) writes:
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- >>In article <1992Aug04.145658.9814@convex.com> cowles@convex.com writes:
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- >> >
- >> > I looked on the distribution disks, but wina20.386 does not exist there
- >> > (under that name). I tried to call Microsoft, but when I finally get to
- >> > the menu that says "Push 9 if you want to talk to a technician.", I
- >> > push 9 and get kicked off the system. ???
- >> >
- >> > How can one tell if one is running in enhanced mode?
- >> > --
- >> > John Cowles cowles@hydra.convex.com
- >> > Convex Computer Corp. 214 497 4375
- >> > 3000 Waterview Pkwy
- >> > Richardson, Tx. 75080
- >> >
-
- >>My understanding is that wina20.386 is needed so that programs can switch
- >>the top address line a20. It must be in the top directory. You can tell
- >>which mode you are in by selecting help in the program manager and then
- >>selecting About. This will tell you the mode you are in and the avaible
- >>system recources.
- >> hope this helps
- >> Terry
-
- >the top directory of what drive? The current drive, the drive windows is
- >on, the boot drive....?
-
- The boot drive. There is a flag you can include when you load it to
- tell 'everybody' that it is located somewhere else, if you elect to
- move it. Note that this is only necessary if you are running Windows
- 3.0 and MS-DOS 5.0 (the file comes with DOS 5).
-
- Apparently MS found it necessary to 'break' something when they did
- the DOS 5.0 update; they then fixed the problem in the next release of
- Windows.
-
-
- --
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- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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