adnan@rice.edu (Sarmad Adnan) (07/06/90)
I got screen peace from terminator.cc.umich.edu "35.1.33.8" from the
msdos/mswindows directory. It works in real mode but dies in the
enhanced mode. The errors I get are that it was unable to find its
files *.spx etc and then it terminates with the unrecoverable
application error.
Any clues?
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Sarmad Adnan (adnan@rice.edu)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~akm@comix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) (07/07/90)
rticle <9659@brazos.Rice.edu> adnan@sturgeon.rice.edu (Sarmad Adnan) writes: >It works in real mode but dies in the >enhanced mode. The errors I get are that it was unable to find its >files *.spx etc and then it terminates with the unrecoverable >application error. I had to hand edit win.ini to tell screen peace where to find its files. If you are interested, here is the relevant part of my win.ini: Screen Peace] Saver Now Pos=A Saver Enabled=y Saver Delay=300 Saver Path=d:\windows\utilitys\scrnpeac There is actually a lot more, one or more lines for each of the add-on spx files, but they are automatically generated, so I won't include them. I have screen peace running just fine on 286 standard mode and 386 enhanced mode, on vga 600x480 on the 286, and 800x600 on the 386. At one point I had it on a herc/386/enhanced. I did find that getting it to go was a bit fiddly (editing the win.ini file), but once that was taken care of, it worked just great. kartik ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anant Kartik Mithal akm@cs.uoregon.edu Department of Computer Science akm@oregon.BITNET University of Oregon
kim@kannel.lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) (07/09/90)
In art. <9659@brazos.Rice.edu> adnan@sturgeon.rice.edu (Sarmad Adnan) writes: >It works in real mode but dies in the >enhanced mode. The errors I get are that it was unable to find its >files *.spx etc and then it terminates with the unrecoverable >application error. >>>>> On 6 Jul 90 20:19:50 GMT, akm@comix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) said: Anant> I had to hand edit win.ini to tell screen peace where to find its Anant> files. If you are interested, here is the relevant part of my win.ini: Anant> I have screen peace running just fine on 286 standard mode and 386 Anant> enhanced mode, on vga 600x480 on the 286, and 800x600 on the 386. At Anant> one point I had it on a herc/386/enhanced. I have the same problem with Screen Peace not finding it's .SPX-files. It does find them when I run WITHOUT HIMEM.SYS. Actually the problem files are the ones from SPX.ZIP. Somehow these won't work for me unless I boot up without HIMEM.SYS and run in real mode. The few SPX-files in the original SCRNPE.ZIP work in any mode I run in. -- Kim ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, "That's what ( Kimmo ! Lappeenranta U of Technology ! kim@lut.fi ) *I* think." ( Suominen ! Computing Centre * Finland ! KUULA::KIM ) ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
ch125-ak@violet.berkeley.edu (07/20/90)
In article <KIM.90Jul9112408@kannel.lut.fi> kim@kannel.lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) writes: > >In art. <9659@brazos.Rice.edu> adnan@sturgeon.rice.edu (Sarmad Adnan) writes: >>It works in real mode but dies in the >>enhanced mode. The errors I get are that it was unable to find its >>files *.spx etc and then it terminates with the unrecoverable >>application error. > I found the problem in my system. The CLOCK.SPX blanker does NOT like to have the regular clock running. Normally I keep the clock in ICON mode (digital) so I know the time. If I closed the clock, All was OK. With the clock, all files in the directory AFTER CLOCK.SPX were not found. REMOVE CLOCK.SPX and all functions normally again. BTW: does anyone know if the SDK will work at all with Turbo C (or C++)? EMAIL appreciated. Jerry
poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) (07/24/90)
In article <1990Jul20.061349.2043@agate.berkeley.edu> ch125-ak@violet.berkeley.edu writes: >In article <KIM.90Jul9112408@kannel.lut.fi> kim@kannel.lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) writes: >> >>In art. <9659@brazos.Rice.edu> adnan@sturgeon.rice.edu (Sarmad Adnan) writes: >>>It works in real mode but dies in the >>>enhanced mode. The errors I get are that it was unable to find its >>>files *.spx etc and then it terminates with the unrecoverable >>>application error. >> > >I found the problem in my system. The CLOCK.SPX blanker does NOT like to have >the regular clock running. Normally I keep the clock in ICON mode (digital) so >I know the time. If I closed the clock, All was OK. With the clock, all files >in the directory AFTER CLOCK.SPX were not found. REMOVE CLOCK.SPX and all >functions normally again. > Rename clock.spx to something like clok.spx or klok.spx. It will work fine that way. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254