[comp.windows.ms] PCNFS,WIN3,ADV-TEL, and QEMM all at once.....

petersja@debussy.cs.colostate.edu (james peterson) (05/01/91)

I have two somewhat unrelated problems perhaps NetWisdom can solve.......

1) I have been trying to get Advanced Telnet (a product resold by Sun) that
is supposed to permit multiple telnet sessions each running in their own
window over Win3 and PCNFS 3.5.  My problem has been that any terminal session
started under windows will terminate abruptly, either blanking the screen
and locking the PC or dissolving the telnet window.  The machine is a
ATT W6386 20Mhz with a 3C501 ether card.  Sun thinks the answer is to
put a new line in the system.ini file reading

	TimerCriticalSection=5000

They say this solved similar problems on their similar setups.  In my
case however, including any version of this line makes Advanced Telnet
inaccessible from Windows and locks the PC (with the hourglass showing)
up completely.  Any suggestions?  BTW, along the way I have tried
swapping the interrupts between the mouse and ether cards (the 3C501 is
now irq 5)...  Sun thought this would help -- it didn't.

2) Only somewhat related is the memory management problems I am having
since aquiring Adv-telnet.  Since it is a TSR and is over 60K when first
loaded, It has made it impossible to run MS Word from Windows (insufficient
memory).  Everyone told me to get QEMM to solve this problem.  I did.
The problem is that I can't get it to work right with PCNFS.  I am told
that QEMM should not be allowed to load the Socket driver high, but this
is not all, apparently, since any attempt to optimize leads to a locked
machine on reboot.  Anyone have any experience with PCNFS, WIndows,
ADvanced Telnet and QEMM (what a kludge!) ?????


HELP?  PS -- please don't tell me to call Microsoft or QuarterDeck, these
people have yet to answer the phone in several days of trying... they
are either busy, or they put me on hold indefinitely....  I am still trying



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james lee peterson				petersja@CS.ColoState.edu
dept. of computer science                       
colorado state university		"Some ignorance is invincible."
ft. collins, colorado  (voice:303/491-7137; fax:303/491-2293)