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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: OS/2, PCTCP, and WP51
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.182213.27524@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <gf1jE6K00Uh_04tFQb@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:22:13 GMT
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- In article <gf1jE6K00Uh_04tFQb@andrew.cmu.edu> Jeffrey Michael Gerber <jg3s+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >I am having the strangest problems with OS/2 2.0, WordPerfect, and PCTCP
- >(from FTP Software).
- >First, if I leave PCTCP (in a VDM) idle for a long amount of time (it
- >varies), it will forget that the TR is attached and start to have
- >problems. For example, EzMail and TN cannot find the machine to connect
- >to (even if I specify the full name). I suspect that maybe the TR is
- >getting overheated or something.
- >Second, and the bigger problem, is that I cannot run both PCTCP and
- >WordPerfect at the same time under OS/2 2.0. If I have PCTCP running in
- >a VDM in the background and I start WordPerfect 5.1 in the foreground,
- >it'll all work just fine for a few minutes. Then, I get the following:
- > PCTCP VDM
- > SYS 2237: DosKrnl:
- > A NPX instruction was attempted, but no NPX is present
- > Explanation: You have an application attemptin to use the
- > numeric coprocessor, but no coprocessor
- > is present on this system.
- >Then, PCTCP quits. C'mon, PCTCP shouldn't be using the FPU/NPX.
- >By the way, this is with the new "golden" CSD (it used to work before).
-
- Naive question, but are you using a specific DOS session? See
- Appendix E of the Installation Guide and/or the online Command
- Reference under VMDISK for more information.
-
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