[comp.windows.ms] What's the deal?

dwithers@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM (Dave Witherspoon) (08/21/90)

I've got 2 gotcha's going on with my particular case of dealing with
Windows:

1.  The vast majority of the time when I start up the first DOS command
    shell, it shows up as an icon in a coma...it doesn't give me a DOS
    screen, it merely sits there.  You can click on it as much as you
    want and nothing happens.  The second and subsequent DOS command
    shells come up OK.  In order to get rid of the one in a coma, it
    must be manually terminated.  Anybody else got this type of problem?

    This behavior seems to apply to all DOS applications.

2.  Windows seems to have trouble dealing with Banyan network drive
    directories.  I'm not sure who's at fault here, but via the File
    Manager, I can create a directory on a network drive, and it shows
    up in the Tree, looks generally cool.  I cannot, however, drag a
    local directory icon to the network directory icon and have a copy
    occur...it whines about the network directory (which I just created
    via FM) not being a directory.  This works fine on a local disk.
    Clues, comments, kludges?

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