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From: bgeer@javelin.es.com (Bob Geer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Win3 killed my disk -- suggestions?
Keywords: Windows parity help
Message-ID: <1990Dec29.042453.1762@javelin.es.com>
Date: 29 Dec 90 04:24:53 GMT
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Reply-To: bgeer%javelin@dsd.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah
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root@hlthnt.UUCP (Steve Ginn) writes:
 
>...
>of this message and wanted add my two cents.  As far as good Win 3.0
>GIF veiwers,  I would recommend WINGIF which is a shareware program
>available on most BBS or COMPUSERVE or GENIE.  It's very helpful and
>makes excellent Wallpaper in all resolutions with a lot of options such
>as changing the size as well as other features such as dithering.

I haven't seen this one come across the net, & don't have CServ or
Genie acccounts...I was using an older version of GWS, but
GRAFWK46.ZOO includes a .PIF & .ICO files...don't know if that implies
it should work better with Win3 or not.

My failure mode is more clear now...I ran CHKDSK /F within Win3, which
is severely no-no'd somewhere in the back pages of the manual.  I ran
CHKDSK because I got the following messages on screen:
	Parity error but segment doesn't found
	Press any key to continue
After recovery, this message occurred again...I deleted smartdrive &
no such message since.  I haven't found reference to this marginal
English grammar message in the manual -- does MS hire a lot of
foreigners? -- but it was alarming the first time I saw it.

My hard disk is a Seagate 277R connected to a DTC 7287 16-bit RLL 1:1
interleave controller, which has some 820 or tracks formatted I think
at 26 sectors per track.

Next mystery: why didn't Win Setup find most of my applications?  I
mean, if they are going to look for me, why just find a few?  Why
didn't it find those that already had .PIF's?  Why no published list
of apps it looks for in the manual?  Are programmers or accountants
running the documentation standards there? (-: wry comment :-)

So far, Win 3 has taken more of my time than using the command line
without multitasking...hope it's worth it :-) .
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