LK-AP@finou.oulu.fi (10/04/90)
Hello from Oulu Finland,
We got DR Dos 5.0 and put in one of our machines;
- AMI-motherboard 25MHZ 386 4MB
- HD 143 MB ATID-controller, 65 + 68 MB partitions
Everything but Windows3 seems to be OK. Problem is, that every now and
Windows is out of order. Error messages are;"Swapfile is corrupted" or
"Main grp is corrupted".
I saw some texts about Win3 and large HD partitions problems. Could our
difficulties have same roots.
If You have some thaugts about DR-DOS 5.0 (and Win3) drop a line.
Antti Peltonenlouisg@vpnet.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto) (10/10/90)
> Everything but Windows3 seems to be OK. Problem is, that every now and > Windows is out of order. Error messages are;"Swapfile is corrupted" or > "Main grp is corrupted". I can only think of two reasons off-hand. 1) There might be a virus on your system, because Windows 3 seems to keep contstant watch on the swapfile, and if a DOS virus changes it, Windows will, of course, bomb. 2) I haven't really heard of DR-Dos 5.0 too much, but keep in mind that WIndows is a microsoft product designed to be used with MS-DOS or PC-DOS. It might overrride some of the other DOS functions, or use some other procedure than interrupts to preform I/O tasks. Perhaps you should try MS- DOS and see if that helps. Louis Giliberto
pritchet@susie.cs.scarolina.edu (Ronald W. Pritchett) (10/24/90)
louisg@vpnet.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto) writes: >> Everything but Windows3 seems to be OK. Problem is, that every now and >> Windows is out of order. Error messages are;"Swapfile is corrupted" or >> "Main grp is corrupted". > I can only think of two reasons off-hand. > 1) There might be a virus on your system, because Windows 3 seems to keep >contstant watch on the swapfile, and if a DOS virus changes it, Windows >will, of course, bomb. >2) I haven't really heard of DR-Dos 5.0 too much, but keep in mind that >WIndows is a microsoft product designed to be used with MS-DOS or PC-DOS. >It might overrride some of the other DOS functions, or use some other >procedure than interrupts to preform I/O tasks. Perhaps you should try MS- >DOS and see if that helps. >Louis Giliberto DR-DOS 5.0 & WIN3 work fine for me. Check the setup of windows. Ron
zool135@canterbury (10/26/90)
In article <pritchet.656724449@susie>, pritchet@susie.cs.scarolina.edu (Ronald W. Pritchett) writes: > > louisg@vpnet.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto) writes: > >>> Everything but Windows3 seems to be OK. Problem is, that every now and >>> Windows is out of order. Error messages are;"Swapfile is corrupted" or >>> "Main grp is corrupted". > >> I can only think of two reasons off-hand. > >> 1) There might be a virus on your system, because Windows 3 seems to keep >>contstant watch on the swapfile, and if a DOS virus changes it, Windows >>will, of course, bomb. > >>2) I haven't really heard of DR-Dos 5.0 too much, but keep in mind that >>WIndows is a microsoft product designed to be used with MS-DOS or PC-DOS. >>It might overrride some of the other DOS functions, or use some other >>procedure than interrupts to preform I/O tasks. Perhaps you should try MS- >>DOS and see if that helps. > >>Louis Giliberto > > DR-DOS 5.0 & WIN3 work fine for me. Check the setup of windows. > > Ron I too have tried Dr Dos 5, generally with no problems. However the 2 areas which HAVE bombed are: (1) downloading softfonts to a HP laserjet using either MS Word 5, or Pagemaker running under Windows 2.03. Perhaps Microsoft and DR don't get along. Sorry, no solutions here - I went back to MS Dos 3.21. I'd be very interested if anyone has overcome similar problems because DR Dos seems superior in many ways to MS Dos. Tom Matheson (t.matheson@canterbury.ac.nz)