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From: akm@comix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: 4dos revisited
Summary: bug fix = bug in 5.25" distribution disks?
Keywords: application violated system integrity terminate
Message-ID: <1990Jul8.012530.22561@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 8 Jul 90 01:25:30 GMT
References: <1990Jul6.204325.1736@cs.uoregon.edu>
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In article <1990Jul6.204325.1736@cs.uoregon.edu> akm@comix.cs.uoregon.edu (me) writes:
>
>I've been running 4dos on my 386/AMI BIOS/Chips & Tech
>chipset/4Meg/VGA paradise 800x600 as the command shell, and I haven't
>been having any problems. A friend of mine recently bought the same
>hardware, and after she installed windows on her machine, I copied the
>contents of my root directory onto her machine,  giving her
>the same config.sys, autoexec.bat 4dos executables and startup files.
>
>This resulted in 4dos being the command processor on her machine, and
>worked just fine at the "Dos" level.  However, when I run 4dos on her
>machine, the first 4dos window appears just fine. The second causes
>windows to produce the message "This application has violated system
>integrity and will be terminated.  Please close all applications, exit
>windows and reboot your system."
>
>As far as I can see, we have the *exact* same setup. I have no problem
>running multiple copies of 4dos.
>
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>
>The only differences I can think of are:
>
>-	The disks that her windows came on are 5.25", mine are 3.5". (So I'm
>	going to try and install win with my disks and see if that makes a
>	difference.) 

Working on the assumption that the only difference was the
distribution disks, I installed windows on her machine using my
distribution disks. 4dos now works fine. I suspect, therefore, that
there is some difference between the 5.25" and 3.5" disks. On
comparing the dates/sizes of the files in the windows and
windows\system directory, the obvious difference is that the date of
win.com is different. I haven't as yet run a fcomp on them, but if I
do, I will post info regarding what I find.

My recommendation to 4dos users who are having problems is this: if
you are using 5.25" distribution disks, try reinstalling windows using
3.5" disks, and see if that fixes the problem. If someone from MS is
listening, could you shed light on the subject?
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Anant Kartik Mithal					akm@cs.uoregon.edu
Department of Computer Science				akm@oregon.BITNET
University of Oregon