sds1@hou2f.UUCP (S.SIMON) (10/22/85)
Subject: IBM Personal Editor w/Mouse Systems mouse Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,att.micro.pc I'm looking for help in solving why the IBM Personal Editor when running with Mouse Systems software crashes my AT&T-6300. The bug is totally random and it has happened more times than I would like to remember. The combination of the Personal Editor w/mouse software is too good to junk. I use it as an offline text editor on the PC, then upload the text to Unix for formating and printing. The bug has happened with version 3.1 and 4.0 of Mouse Systems software. When the crash occurs, I either get a DOS message over my text: command.com error system haulted or the computer just dies. In either case I must do a cold boot...I loose everything..can't use debug to save the text. The author from Mouse Systems was aware that this error has occurred before on an IBM-XT. Because the machine dies, he hasn't been able to perform a memory dump to figure out what's going on. I've been using the Personal Editor for 2 years without a problem on a regular IBM-PC. Any solutions for fixing the miserable bug(s) are greatfully accepted. steve simon AT&T-Bell Labs hou2f!sds1 201-949-2041
2212msr@whuts.UUCP (ROBIN) (10/23/85)
However, I have been able to occasionally circumvent the same DOS error message by setting up a ram disk, copying command.com to the ram disk and using set comspec=X:\command.com (where X=ram disk drive letter) in my autoexec.bat file. (Of course your path statement must also include the ram disk root directory.) Hope this helps. Max S. Robin AT&T Bell Labs Rm. 3e-318a Whippany, NJ 07981 201-386-6865