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From: m_patten@vivian.enet.dec.com (Martin Patten)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MSDOS 4.01 problem?
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Date: 6 Feb 91 23:44:13 GMT
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In article <1991Jan26.012533.23107@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, draper@buster.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J Draper) writes...
>In article <4560@mindlink.UUCP> a48@mindlink.UUCP (Ullrich Fischer) writes:
>>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:
> 
> (settings deleted)
>>
>>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.
> 
>FCBS are not a feature that you want to use under 4.01 because of the
>large partition size. The FCBS can "wrap around" at the 32MB mark and
>trash your disk.
> 
>That's the reason that share.exe is provided. Besides handling file
>sharing, it also does some mumbo jumbo with FCBS so that they work
>properly.
> 
>That may help your problem, but I wouldn't be suprised if the total
>solution is some combination of share.exe and the FCBS config variable.
> 
> 
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>Patrick Draper              In times like these it is helpful to
>cps.msu.edu                   remember that there have always 
>draper@cps.msu.edu                been times like these.
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    Can you explain what FCB's are for as my system has congigured
    itself as 

    25,8

    I have installed on my system the following, which i presume one
    of the listed packages set this for me.

    windows 3

    wordperfect 5.1

    WPS-Plus

    Running on a 286 with 1mb of memory

    thanks in advance



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