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To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
From: "Mark at Cross+Road's" <mark1 AT mich DOT com>
CC: <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 07:47:59 +1700
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com


I don't think so, I still believe it is somehow related to the "dpmi" and
you could try dpmi=off before running any certain program that gives you an
error to see if that error remains!
      Mark


On 2000-10-29 opendos AT delorie DOT com said:
   >Last time I used Norton's Wipe it literally did just that.
   >It cleaned off the formatting on the partition on the
   >hard drive and on the floppies I used it on.
   >Since Norton's Wipe program is the military strength (Times ten)
   >data eraser it should be used carefully.  I originally thought that
   >it only wrote X's in each and every empty  data bit position on
   >the disk ten times but it may have been having a problem with
   >entries in the fat which were supposed to be erased.
   >???  Could this be cause of a problem with EMM386?
   >BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS 'Chocolate is a vitamin'
   >On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:27:48 -0500 fernande AT internet1 DOT net writes:
   >> That was me, Chad, not Mark :-)
   >> The two problem areas that come to mind were SciTech Display
   >>Doctor,  and
   >> the Wipe function of Norton Utilities.  Both would cause EMM386 to
   >> halt
   >> the system, or crash, no matter what I tried.  I can't remember
   >>what  exactly I tired, However, it has been too long :-)
   >> Recently, after switching the boot scsi adapter in another
   >>computer,  Norton wipe crashes again.  Let me explain further,
   >>both scsi  adapter
   >> have been installed, I just switched the setup to boot from the
   >> Differential SCSI adapter, instead of the Single Ended one.  This
   >>is  under PCDOS 7, However.  I am not worried about it, However.
   >>The  setup
   >> is probably going to get changed again anyways :-)
   >> Chad Fernandez
   >> Michigan, USA
   >> Recently
   >> > What kind of bugs are you encountering and what software does
   >>not  work for
   >> > you? Some software cannot use EMS installed, some cannot have
   >>DPMI  > installed, etc. I do not seem to have any problems with it,
   >> however,
   >> > programs that will work on my system okay do not work right on
   >>my  brother's
   >> > computer. We both have DRDOS 7.03 installed. He has flaky
   >>problems  with some
   >> > programs that I do not have problems with. I know that for one
   >> thing, his
   >> > BIOS sucks big time. So it may not even be a problem with the
   >> EMM386 itself,
   >> >  but with something low level in the system.
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