Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!mks.com!andy From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) Subject: Re: FAQ & MKS Date: Thu, 17 Jan 91 17:59:27 GMT Message-ID: <1991Jan17.175927.24231@mks.com> Keywords: MKS FAQ Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA References: <993@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> I tried to send e-mail, but it bounced. In article <993@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> jamie@macadam.tmc.edu (Jamie Purcal x8522 C5C-430 Accounting Jamie Finance) writes: >Answer 13 in the FAQ suggests that the MKS alias for Windows should be: > alias -x win="C:\\usr\\windows\\win.com" >This doesn't seem to work: it appears that the double \s are translated >to single slashes in the stored alias, and then treated as escape chars >on execution of the alias. To fix this use The FAQ has been updated. The alias should have single quotes instead of double quotes. >I'm having a couple of other problems with the MKS shell: >1. I can't invoke multiple (windowed) versions of the MKS shell from > 386 enhanced mode without causing severe misbehaviour: this is > a bit odd, as one windowed instance is fine. (Incidently, I have > no problems with multiple instances of the DOS4.01 shell). I am using > the default pif, and have ver3.1f of the MKS toolkit. There isn't enough information to diagnose the above problem. What do you mean by `misbehaviour'? Be specific. Please send e-mail to support@mks.com regarding this problem. >2. MKS shell gives me a "no pipes available" error message when ever I try > to use a pipe (both within and outside windows). This message isn't > documented (I have tried changing the files statement in config.sys > Also have looked at share and fastopen, but cannot get pipes. This is usually caused by failure of a write operation to the pipe file which is created in the temporary directory, usually /tmp or c:/tmp. Make sure that TMPDIR is set to the proper directory and that files can be created in this directory. -- Andy Toy UUCP: ...!uunet!watmath!mks!andy Technical Support Phone: +1-519-884-2270 Mortice Kern Systems Inc. Phone: +1-519-884-2251 35 King Street North, Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2W9, CANADA Fax: +1-519-884-8861