unbent@ecsvax.UUCP (Jay F. Rosenberg) (05/14/88)
I have now tried out three more GIF viewers, and all of them have
failed in the same way ("Error in EXE file" + partial system lockup) after
beautifully displaying one GIF picture. Here are some straws it occurred to
me to clutch at:
Does it make any difference that I'm starting the viewer programs
from a ramdisk in extended (expanded?) memory?
Does it make any difference that I have a bunch of memory-resident
stuff?
Is there a way of converting EXE files to COM files, and would
*that* make any difference?
I call these straws, because I still suspect that the real problem
is a cheap, non-register-compatible EGA card, and I'm reluctant to spend the
money for the upgrade at the moment. Is any of those straws worth going to
the trouble of testing? Or am I just going to have to be temporarily
content with rebooting after each GIF picture? (It makes for a *slow*
slideshow!) Thanks for listening.
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JAY ROSENBERG Dept. of Philosophy CB# 3125 UNC Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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