lev@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL (Lloyd E Vancil) (06/03/91)
There is a wierd conflict between compaq dos and the Pheonix Bios. I discovered this when trying to use SYSEDIT to rewrite my WIN.INI. After a very minor edit I rebooted windows to activate the change and Windows came up in its default colors. Mystified, I pulled sysedit to check win.ini and found it was EMPTY! a quick check with fileman showed 0 bytes in the file. Fileman copy of the file from a backup reported a good copy but file length in the destination was still 0 bytes. The backup copy of WIN.INI is 8704 bytes. Even more confused than before I dropped out of windows and tried a dos copy of the same file. Dos, COMPAQ 3.3.1, reported one file copied but a directory of the destination still showed 0 bytes. At this point I was thinking VIRUS... I was not finished, Scanv showed nothing, PCmap showed nothing, Pcshell showed nothing. I tried renaming the backup and copying it and then renaming it win.ini. That worked, but when I went to windows still the defaults and win.ini was still 0 bytes. Paniced calles to Microsoft and Macafee ensued. Macafee was helpful but the upshot was they didn't think there were any viruses outthere aimed at Windows yet. Microsoft said I should go back to 3.3.0 dos. That fixed it. Wierd huh? -- | suned1!lev@elroy.JPL.Nasa.Gov | * S.T.A.R.S.! . + o | | lev@suned1.nswses.navy.mil | The Revolution has begun! . + | | sun!suntzu!suned1!lev | My Opinions are Mine mine mine hahahah!|