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- From: djackson@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Jackson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Problems with Norton Desktop.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.085244@axion.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 07:52:44 GMT
- References: <1992Sep6.220335.12171@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Sep6.210931.15421@husc3.harvard.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep6.210931.15421@husc3.harvard.edu>,
- gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu (Fernando Gouvea) writes:
- |> 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
- |>
- You could try commenting out the section in ndw.ini which
- relate to int21
- (I can't remember exactly which lines - e mail me if you need
- further help), I
- run NDW 2.0 on WIN-OS2 with HPFS with no problems (unless I
- try backup !!)
-
-
- David J Jackson Telephone +44 473 645805
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