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From: leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Lotus 1-2-3 under Windows 3.0 - Further Information
Keywords: LOTUS WINDOWS HELP
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Date: 19 Dec 90 20:41:44 GMT
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In article <582@swuts.swbt.com> ucoerp@swuts.swbt.com (1897] Robert Paster) writes:
>>I just loaded Windows 3.0 and Lotus 1-2-3 Release 3.1 won't run from
>>Windows. If I exit Windows, Lotus runs fine. I'm running on a 286
>>clone, with a 40 Mb hard drive, a VGA monitor, and 5Mb of Ram (1Mb on
>>the motherboard and 4Mb on a Parity Plus memory board). 

I ran into the opposite situation ... worked fine under Win3, but failed 
miserably under DOS ... some of the symptoms were very similar.

My suspicion, based on a (finally) successful 123v3.1/win3 installation on a 
secretaries machine, is that your machine is having trouble with the DOS16M 
memory manager.  In our case, we had to (in the autoexec.bat) use the 
command "set dos16m=9" *AND* reduce from turbo (10MHz) to snail (6MHz) mode.  

That combination allowed it to function correctly in both cases.

Note: The dos16m=9 was arrived at through trial & error ... on a 10MHz 286, 9 
or 10 are PROBABLY the right values ... if you just got the package, you can 
use the 6mo FREE lotus prompt hotline ... they may have already discovered the 
right combo for your machine.


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