fsdmb3@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (06/12/90)
Two weeks ago I received my Pc-Ditto II and I installed it without a hitch, after bending the connector pins and not trying to fit it in my 1040. I got a Norton rating of 4.2 and everything was just fine... till I ran a program I found posted on my local VAX in the PC group. It was called SCOUT.ARC and it was supposed to be a Xtree or 1dir -like dos shell demo. I installed it on a floppy disk and ran it, after a terribly long load time it operated fine, but it only allowed for 13 files and 4 nested directory... it is a demo. _BUT_ after removing the program and rebooting I get an _unusable_ PC-clone! I now have repeated returns after directory and repeated beeps when more than 13 files are listed (just like in the demo program!). The keyboard input is sluggish and the Norton rating fluctuates between a whopping 6 and 0.7!!! The real shot to the heart is that whenever I run a program that takes over the whole screen... like Lotus, Word or even Xtree, the computer locks, never to reawaken! Any Ideas? could Scout have re-written the keyboard and screen handlers in Pc-Ditto II?? I have booted from new DOS disks, with and without the hard drive and nothing seems to work... Help! Please e-mail me some ideas, or post them normally under Pc-Ditto. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Braun FSDMB3@ALASKA.BITNET fsdmb3@acad3.fai.alaska.edu University of Alaska, Fairbanks - Where it's warm when it's 40 bellow. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------