wwitt@adara.intel.com (06/29/91)
Hello everybody, Yesterday I received my copy of PCTools Version 7 in the mail. Of course, I installed it right away on my 386 to try it out. Overall it looks pretty slick, but I've encountered a very annoying and fatal problem. While running MS-DOS 5 with QEMM 5.11, QEMM informs me of a General Protection Violation (Exception 13) whenever I try to run Backup (cpbackup), System Info (si) or File Find (ff) directly from DOS. The strange thing is that everything seems to work when I load the programs not directly from DOS, but through PCShell. Furthermore, I can also start cpbackup, si and ff in a DOS window under Windows 3.0 running in 386 enhanced mode, without receiving any messages from Windows that a DOS application has misbehaved. So, what's up? I looked through the manuals and readme file, but couldn't find anything that might be relevant to my problem. However, I can't claim that I've read all three inches of the new PCTools documentation. Has anybody encountered a similar problem? Are cpbackup, si and ff ill behaved? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. Wolf => Wolf Witt, Design Engineer <=> You say there is a bug in this chip? <= => i860 Focus Group, Intel Corp. <=> No, no, you don't understand... <= => wwitt@smdvx1.intel.com <=> This is a feature! <= => Intel knows nothing about what I say or do, but they pay me anyway. <=
reisert@mast.enet.dec.com (Jim Reisert) (06/29/91)
In article <4925@inews.intel.com>, wwitt@adara.intel.com writes... > >Overall it looks pretty slick, but I've encountered a very annoying and >fatal problem. While running MS-DOS 5 with QEMM 5.11 My suggestion is to get a copy of the two patches on SIMTEL20 and try again; Directory PD1:<MSDOS.INFO> Filename Type Length Date Description ============================================== FUNC24.ZIP B 2412 910521 QEMM 5.10/5.11/5.12 zero length mem region fix RALLOC.ZIP B 2942 910329 EMS/XMS fixes for QEMM-386 5.00/5.10/5.11/5.12 - Jim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "The opinions expressed here in no way represent the views of Digital Equipment Corporation." James J. Reisert Internet: reisert@mast.enet.dec.com Digital Equipment Corp. UUCP: ...decwrl!mast.enet!reisert 146 Main Street Voice: 508-493-5747 Maynard, MA 01754 FAX: 508-493-0395