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- Soft-ICE/W 1.0 README FILE
-
- This file contains important information that is not in the user manual.
- Most of this information concerns trouble shooting problems. Also see the
- troubleshooting section of the Soft-ICE/W manual.
-
- INSTALLING Soft-ICE/W ICONS
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-
- A program called INSTALL.EXE on the release disk will automatically install
- the icons for the Soft-ICE/W on a Soft-ICE/W menu. Copy all of the
- files from the root directory of the distribution diskette to a sub-directory
- on your hard drive, then run INSTALL.EXE from Windows by selecting FILE
- followed by RUN from the program manager. When RUN prompts for the
- file name, enter hard-disk-path\INSTALL.EXE.
-
- RUNNING OUT OF MEMORY
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-
- The default WINICE.DAT reserves 256K of symbol memory with the SYM
- directive. If you do not need that much memory for symbols and source
- you can reduce this.
-
- LOADING MULTIPLE SYMBOL TABLES WITH THE LOAD DIRECTIVE
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-
- This item concerns loading multiple files from the LOAD directive
- in WINICE.DAT or from the WINICE /load switch. If an error is encountered
- when loading one of the files, no further symbol table loading is done.
- If there is a loading problem with one of the files, Soft-ICE/W
- will prompt you for a key. You can press Ctrl C at this point to exit from
- Soft-ICE/W back to DOS or press any key to continue. If you continue
- then all further LOAD statements or /load switches will be ignored.
-
- POPPING UP FROM A SERIAL TERMINAL
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-
- If you are using Soft-ICE/W from a serial terminal, you should
- place the COM keyword in WINICE.DAT. This will allow popping
- up from the serial terminal. The syntax of the COM keyword is:
-
- COMn = ON
-
- Where n is 1, 2, 3 or 4 depending on which COM port will be
- used. You can alternatively place the /COMn on the Soft-ICE/W
- command line.
-
- USING Soft-ICE/W ON NOVELL NetWare Networks
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-
- When Soft-ICE/W is popped up, all system activity including interrupts
- is halted. If Soft-ICE/W is popped up for more than 15 minutes the server
- may disconnect your workstation from the network. Under most conditions
- this timeout is long enough, but if it becomes a problem you can pop out
- of Soft-ICE/W and back in every 10 minutes or so.
-
- Under Netware 3.X, you can configure the server to increase its timeout with
- one or more SET statements on the server's consol command line (these are
- usually put in AUTOEXEC.NCF. The syntax of the SET statement is:
-
- SET name = value
-
- value is in seconds or in packets depending on the name.
-
- There are 3 names that are appropriate:
-
- 1. "NUMBER OF WATCHDOG PACKETS"
- limits: 5 to 100
- default: 10
-
- 2. "DELAY BETWEEN WATCHDOG PACKETS"
- limits: 9.9 seconds to 10 minutes 26.2 seconds
- default: 59.3 seconds
-
- 3. "DELAY BEFORE FIRST WATCHDOG PACKET"
- limits: 15.7 seconds to 20 minutes 52.3 seconds
- default: 4 minutes 56.6 seconds
-
- Example:
-
- SET NUMBER OF WATCHDOG PACKETS = 100
-
- If you enter this command on the server's command line, the
- total timeout time to be increased from approximately
- 15 minutes to approximately 2 hours.
-
- USING THE DEBUGGING VERSION OF WIN386.EXE
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-
- If you are developing VxDs and using the debugging version of WIN386.EXE
- you must use the /K switch on the WINICE command line or the KBD=TRUE
- directive in WINICE.DAT. See APPENDIX B "Using Soft-ICE/W with the Windows
- Debugging Kernel" in the reference guide for more information.
-
- UNRELEASED VERSIONS OF WINDOWS
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-
- Soft-ICE/W is only guaranteed to work, on Windows 3.0.
-
- WLDR HANGING WHILE LOADING SOURCE
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-
- There may be a memory window where WLDR will hang while loading source files.
- If this occurs, increase the amount of symbol memory int the SYM directive
- in WINICE.DAT.
-
- VM MODE OR V86 MODE
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-
- When in a DOS Virtual machine, Soft-ICE/W will display 'V86' in the line
- above the code window. The reference guide states that 'VM' is displayed.
-
- QEMM 6.0 USERS
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-
- You can not use 'stealth' mode in QEMM 6.0 when using Soft-ICE/W. They are
- being too stealthy, we can't find the video pointers.
-