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- From: gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu (Fernando Gouvea)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Problems with Norton Desktop.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.210931.15421@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 01:09:31 GMT
- References: <1992Sep6.220335.12171@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Colby College Dept. of Math/CS
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- In article <1992Sep6.220335.12171@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> ashwath@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ashwath Ram) writes:
- >
- >Yesterday i installed Norton Desktop for Windows 2.0 using the
- >WIN-OS2 full screen mode. I don't have NDW running as the primary
- >shell and all I want to do is run desktop in the full screen
- >WIN-OS2 mode. But everytime I try to load it up it keeps crashing
- >and throwing me out of WIN-OS2 mode. Has anyone else tried this,
-
-
- My experience (also on a Gateway, but 386/33) is almost identical to yours:
- NDW starts loading, and then crashes, usually just at the point when it
- should access the disks to create the drive objects. The programs that come
- with it, for the most part, do the same: they work until you try to open or
- save a file (disk access again!), then boom! The exact error seems to
- depend on things like the video driver, but this is the general pattern.
-
- I sent e-mail to the ibm bugs program about this; I suggest you do the
- same. They e-mailed back and forth a few times, then seemed to subside,
- without really suggesting a solution.
-
- By the way, the Norton Utilities for DOS, though they run, also exhibit
- some problems with disk access on my machine. SI, for example, takes a
- loooooong time to find out how many disks are installed... and can't figure
- out what the A: and B: drives are.
-
- My guess: the Norton programs do something like direct disk access, which
- is bound to go wrong in OS/2.
-
- Fernando
-
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