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From: goodearl@world.std.com (Robert D Goodearl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 4DOS and Windows 3.0 problem.
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Date: 24 Jul 90 18:17:24 GMT
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In article <1990Jul24.061834.758@amd.com> indra@ashirvad.amd.com (Indra Singhal) writes:
>In evaluating 4DOS 3.01a, I have it running alongside Windows 3.0 in one
>configuration and with Desqview 2.25 in another on an AST Premium/286
>with 2MB, 896 expanded, 640 conventional rest extended.
>
>I have had no problems running under DV 2.25. Under Win 3, though, the
>DOS window freezes if I switch back into it after going into Win 3. The
>freeze is so cold, only a h/w reset fixes it.
>
>I believe it may have something to do with 4DOS swapping in expanded
>memory when it opens up. Has anyone else seen this?

I'd be interested to find out how you have set up 4dos to swap to extended
memory.  The initial 4dos shell must be started outside of windows.  Are you
running an emm emulator and running windows in real mode?  If not, I suspect
the inital shell will probably crash when it tries to swap.

Initially when I started using 4dos, I set it up to swap to _extended_
memory.  At that time I had occasional problems with windows exiting back
to the primary shell without warning or error messages, so I changed to
swapping to disk (with no noticable delays, but then I'm running with a
large smartdrive).  The problem did not go away and appears to be related
to a new version of the netware drivers.  (Welcome to the bleeding edge ;-)
When the netware drivers have stabilized, I'll go back to extended memory
swapping.  (Which works just fine on my machine at home -- no network.)

Bob Goodearl -- goodearl@world.std.com

P.S.  Are you planning to pay for 4dos?
#define SOAPBOX_ON
#ifdef SOAPBOX_ON
If you use shareware and like it, please pay for it.  If the folks who develop
shareware don't get anything for their (considerable) time, they won't continue
to make shareware available.  The version of GCP that is due out on cbip
within the week will no longer be available as shareware (ie: no new versions)
because there have not been enough registration fees.
#endif //SOAPBOX_ON