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- From: aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: Help Needed with 'pstartsql' & 'pisql' error message.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.024251.23536@informix.com>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 02:42:51 GMT
- References: <1992Nov2.052408.4683@netcom.com> <1992Nov2.202959.24795@informix.com>
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- In article <1992Nov2.202959.24795@informix.com> dsimon@informix.com writes:
- >>Machine: 386DX 25mhz, 8mb RAM, VGA
- >>Version of Informix is 2.10.06
- >>
- >>Error message: DOS/16M error: Cannot run 286 protected mode within
- >> Virtual 8086.
- >
- >The err message you are getting is telling you that somehow, your machine is in
- >V86 mode. As such, it can not start a protected mode application, only real mode
- >is available in V86 mode. Possible causes of this...are you trying to start
- >pstartsql and pisql from within Windows?
- >
- >Also note that these are the only allowable combinations:
- >
- >startsql and isql
- >pstartsql and pisql
- >pstartsql and isql
- >
- >you cannot do startsql and pisql.
-
- This is incorrect; startsql and pisql DO work together OK (in 2.10.06, at
- least).
-
- >> Bob Beaulieu bobb@netcom.com
- >don simon
-
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