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From: a48@mindlink.UUCP (Ullrich Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: MSDOS 4.01 problem?
Message-ID: <4560@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 91 03:26:48 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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The following problem came up on a 386 20 Mhz ISA PC using MSDOS 4.01 when
attempting to run AutoCad release 10.  A message to the effect that there were
not enough FCBs appeared briefly and the user was dumped back to the DOS prompt
initially from within the drawing editor.  We tried the following settings of
the FCBS parameter in the CONFIG.SYS file:

No FCBS parameter in config.sys - problem as described above.

FCBS=0,0   - Couldn't load AutoCad, complained about insufficient FCBS or
             FILES=

FCBS=8,0   -   ditto

FCBS=8,2   -   ditto

FCBS=255,30 -  Appears to work although the initial problem didn't manifest
               itself until after about 10 minutes of editing the drawing.

We also tried increasing FILES=  and BUFFERS=  with no apparent effect.

What is the story with FCBS under MSDOS 4.01?  I've heard others who have had
other weird things happen which seemed to implicate this parameter.