daveegan: @dhw68k.cts.com (Dave Egan - N6XVZ) (06/15/91)
Whenever I try to run the "DOS Prompt" from the MAIN group, things start
well but end up miserable. I do get the MS-DOS prompt and the C> prompt.
However, when I enter a command, ie: dir, the whole machine goes through
a COLD BOOT with RAM check and all. What gives? This failed under MS-DOS
3.31 and still with MS-DOS 5.0. Has anybody else seen this as well?
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InterNet: daveegan@dhw68k.cts.com |smsmith@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M Smith) (06/16/91)
daveegan: @dhw68k.cts.com (Dave Egan - N6XVZ) writes: >Whenever I try to run the "DOS Prompt" from the MAIN group, things start >well but end up miserable. I do get the MS-DOS prompt and the C> prompt. >However, when I enter a command, ie: dir, the whole machine goes through >a COLD BOOT with RAM check and all. What gives? This failed under MS-DOS >3.31 and still with MS-DOS 5.0. Has anybody else seen this as well? >-- >Dave Egan | Radio: N6XVZ > uucp: ...{spsd,zardoz,felix}!dhw68k!daveegan | > InterNet: daveegan@dhw68k.cts.com | I tried to email to your internet address twice, but it bounced... This may be way off, but have you put a COMSPEC= statement in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file? It might be that DOS cannot find its command interpreter (COMMAND.COM) and then bombs out. Here's a sample comspec line: SET COMSPEC=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM Good luck. Stephen M. Smith \ + / <smsmith@magnus. \+++++/ " #*&<-[89s]*(k#$@-_=//a2$]'+=.(2_&*%>,,@ acs.ohio-state. \ + / {7%*@,..":27g)-=,#*:.#,/6&1*.4-,l@#9:-) " edu> \ + / BTW, WYSInaWYG \ + / --witty.saying.ARC
feustel@netcom.COM (David Feustel) (06/16/91)
I have a worse case of this problem. When windows runs under msdos 5.0, no non-windows program can be started, period. The standard message that occurs is that it can't find the application program. This happens in win and win/3. Windows programs Excel, WinWord and Smalltalk/V for windows start ok. I'm bootind msdos 5.0 from a floppy. Everything works correctly if I boot from pcdos 3.3 instead. The paths of all programs are fully specified in the properties boxes. -- David Feustel, 1930 Curdes Ave, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, (219) 482-9631 EMAIL: feustel@netcom.com or feustel@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu