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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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To: randir <goehrigd AT gort DOT canisius DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 12:04:43 +0100
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Subject: Re: MS Word 6.0c problems
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Once upon a time (on  7 May 97 at 22:57) randir said:

> However, after about two or three file calls by Word something
> goes screwy and it thinks the drive is copy protected or full or
> too many files are open.  Also Word starts producing temporary
> files like crazy with no data in them.
> 
>  Now if I use a MS-dos boot disk and the himem.sys and
>  emm386 in that comes with windows I have no problems.
> 
>  Does anyone know if the problem lies in the memory managers
>  or is it something more fundamental? [I wonder because it
>  looks like a file system problem, but it doesn't affect
>  the notepad or MS-Write apperantly or even IE 3.02a..]
It's a problem with OD emm386.exe which is undoubtedly buggy. You might try 
to set the following on its command line: DPMI=off MULTI=off
If that doesn't help, just use the driver that came with Windoze (I hate to 
say it, but it works ok ;-))) I am running Win311 with EMM from OD, though, 
and have no problems (except for an access to the CD from under Windoze - 
32-bit access is screwy)
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