From:	zargon AT hotmail DOT vom (Zargon)
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Subject:	Re: running prog in dos error
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On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 20:42:30 +0200, "cel" <cel AT dds DOT nl> ate too many
hallucinogenic mushrooms and wrote:

>When i run allegro setup for the sound card in a win95 box it runs ok but if
>i start up in dos mode windows 95 ver 4001111 i get a general protection
>fault

It could be you have a "winsoundcard" if there is such a thing, which
pure DOS can't see. If you ran the setup in Windows and it detected
the card and saved the settings someplace, then ran it under DOS, it
would load the settings and try to talk to the card, which is no
longer accessible, and bomb.

(I think this can happen with some plug and pray cards, which don't
exist until a plug and pray OS, e.g. Windows, does something to them,
and which go back into limbo when you reboot...)
-- 
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from
an Allegro-using C++ program compiled with gcc.

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