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From: goodearl@world.std.com (Robert D Goodearl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: 4dos revisited
Keywords: application violated system integrity terminate
Message-ID: <1990Jul8.161206.10162@world.std.com>
Date: 8 Jul 90 16:12:06 GMT
References: <1990Jul6.204325.1736@cs.uoregon.edu> <1990Jul8.012530.22561@cs.uoregon.edu>
Organization: The World
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In article <1990Jul8.012530.22561@cs.uoregon.edu>
akm@comix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:

>>I've been running 4dos on my 386/AMI BIOS/Chips & Tech
>>chipset/4Meg/VGA paradise 800x600 as the command shell

>>friend of mine recently bought the same
>>hardware...

>>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. ...

>>The only differences I can think of are:
>>
>>-	The disks that her windows came on are 5.25", mine are 3.5".

>I installed windows on her machine using my
>distribution disks. 4dos now works fine.

I am using 4dos both at home (386 sx clone) and at work (PS/2 Model 70).
Windows was installed at home from 5 1/4" floppies and at work from 3 1/2"
floppies.  In general, things are fine on both machines and I haven't seen
the symptoms that Anant describes.  

I have occasionally been dumped back to the inital 4dos prompt (ie: windows 
quits) without warning.  The good news is that it happens very rarely (once 
or twice a week at work, less frequently at home) so it's not a significant 
problem.  The bad news is that it happens very rarely ;-) so I haven't been 
able to establish a cause.

I am using windows 95% of the time on my machine at work (writing and debugging
windows software, accessing network files and mail, etc.), so I am willing
to live with the infrequent problems because of the benefits
I get from using 4dos.  These include command line and file name completion,
command editing, many features that are unix like, etc.  Since the old and
familiar TSR's cannot be used with windows, this package is of  significant
benefit.  I've exchanged mail with Tom Rawson of JP Software, and he is
interested in fixing the bugs if enough information can be passed for him
to duplicate them.

As soon as I can get a set of disks from the author directly, I'll post the
package to comp.binaries.ibm.pc.  This is a very good shareware package and
a bargain at $50.  If you use it, please register it.  We as a community
benefit greatly from the work of shareware authors, and they won't continue
doing shareware if we don't support them.

(I have no connection with J.P. Software other than as a satisfied user.)

Bob Goodearl -- goodearl@world.std.com