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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: WinOS2 in 2.1beta
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.011741.13422@news.columbia.edu>
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- Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Organization: Columbia University, New York
- References: <1993Jan24.064834.28954@news.columbia.edu> <1993Jan25.145122.2847@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:17:41 GMT
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- No, it is an install problem (fixed by selective install times X)
- However, umb support seems to prevent DOS programs from working right.
-
- In article <1993Jan25.145122.2847@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU> jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan24.064834.28954@news.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
- >>I have the 2.1beta and can't get Windows programs working without running
- >>the WIN-full-screen session. No WINOS2 settings exist when I create a
- >>program object for a Windows program. I tried reinstalling WINOS2 support
- >>using selective install. It gave me a Y E? N A R I error, and I told it to
- >>retry...it continued, then appeared to hang saying it was configuring.
- >>I double clicked on the top left, and on OK, and it closed. Same as before,
- >>no Win-OS2 settings. Any ideas on how to get this to work?
- >>
- >>Video is ET4000, 800x600x256.
- >>HPFS partition
- >>SCSI (AHA1542) disk (also an IDE)
- >>
- >>I believe I should be able to get seamless winos2, as well as settings.
- >>I installed 2.1 on a freshly formatted partition.
- >
- >Just a thought...do you happen to use 4DOS as a DOS shell? I did, and when
- >4DOS used the UMB, I could not get seamless windows to work. In my 4dos.ini
- >file, I changed the UMBEnvironment to = NO and UMBLoad = NO. Is anything else
- >using your UMB?
- >
- >Jeff
- >
- >
- >--
- >--------------------------------------
- >jurlwin@gandalf.umcs.maine.edu
- >
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