pa1022@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Eric Hedstrom) (05/02/89)
A few months ago I posted a question asking why my Windows/386 crashes when I try to print from any programs loaded under it. Tonight I finally decided to narrow down the cause, and found it: when I run Windows/386 from a batch file and then try to print, it crashes. If I run it straight from the DOS prompt, it works fine. Windows/286 works fine either way. Any speculation why this is so? Eric -- Eric Hedstrom | P.O. Box 4563 | Wiggy Internet: pa1022@iugrad2.ucsd.edu | La Jolla, CA 92037-0999 | wiggy! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "It's real plastic, so don't settle for imitation!" - WKRP in Cincinnati
beckman@dev386.UUCP (Zacharias Beckman) (05/04/89)
In article <1483@sdcc15.ucsd.edu>, pa1022@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Eric Hedstrom) writes: > to narrow down the cause, and found it: when I run Windows/386 from a batch > file and then try to print, it crashes. If I run it straight from the > DOS prompt, it works fine. Windows/286 works fine either way. Any We run Windows/386 from a batch file (MSDOS 3.3) all the time here, without any problems. Perhaps you need a newer version of DOS, or perhaps the problem has been midiagnosed...
pa1022@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Eric Hedstrom) (05/06/89)
In article <448@dev386.UUCP> beckman@dev386.UUCP (Zacharias Beckman) writes: >In article <1483@sdcc15.ucsd.edu>, I write: >> to narrow down the cause, and found it: when I run Windows/386 from a batch >> file and then try to print, it crashes. If I run it straight from the >> DOS prompt, it works fine. Windows/286 works fine either way. Any > >We run Windows/386 from a batch file (MSDOS 3.3) all the time here, without any >problems. Perhaps you need a newer version of DOS, or perhaps the problem has >been midiagnosed... I have PC-DOS 3.3 and Windows/386 2.1. I don't think the problem has been misdiagnosed, because the crashes depended only on whether Windows was run from a batch file. Nothing else had any effect. -- Eric Hedstrom | P.O. Box 4563 | Wiggy Internet: pa1022@iugrad2.ucsd.edu | La Jolla, CA 92037-0999 | wiggy! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "It's real plastic, so don't settle for imitation!" - WKRP in Cincinnati
beckman@dev386.UUCP (Zacharias Beckman) (05/09/89)
Regarding Windows crashing when started from a batch file: Perhaps your problem is that you are using PC-DOS 3.3, rather than MS-DOS 3.3. As I have stated before, we have no problem with this under MS-DOS. Personally, I've never thought much of IBM's versions of MS-DOS. It seems that when they get their hands on a version of MS-DOS they mess it up (i.e.: PC-DOS 3.2 had over 21 new bugs in it, while the MS-DOS version had only a few).