Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!unido!tub!fauern!tumuc!lan!rommel From: rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Barfing up 3.0 apps Message-ID: <3793@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> Date: 6 Aug 90 09:56:40 GMT References: <8685@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> Sender: news@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de Reply-To: rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel) Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, TU Muenchen, W. Germany Lines: 38 In article <8685@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> maurit@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (Mark Aurit ) writes: >A while back I posted a message about getting the following messge when >I click on the "command.com" button in the MAIN menu: > > Application Execution Error > Cannot find file; check to insure the path and > filename are correct > >Sounds easy enough to fix; yet command.com WAS there. Whether I type it >in or use BROWSE to fetch the name, the same thing happens (this is on a >no-name standalone clone 386). I tried many things (moving command.com >to another directory and pointing to it), none of them working. Finally I I had this bug too, when I played with a Windows 3.0 version which was labelled "version 3.0 RC6" in the Program managers about box. This was in May. Now I upgraded my own Windows and got one which is only labelled as "version 3.0" and did not have again this bug. The sources of the problem was, that Windows couldn't find some apps (mostly old applications) when more than eight fonts were installed with control panel. Usually, you have COURE, HELVE, TMSRE, SYMBOLE, MODERN, ROMAN and SCRIPT installed. I wanted to add the 8514 fonts COURF, HELVF, TMSRF and SYMBOLF to have bigger fonts for a 24pin printer which has the same aspect ratio than VGA and 8514. After adding the ninth font, this problem occured and after removing the ninth one it went away. I am wondering what these two things got to do with each other but this was the bug. It seems to be fixed in the current delivered versions. Kai Uwe Rommel -- /* Kai Uwe Rommel * Munich * rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de */