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From: liggio@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Vincent J. Liggio)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Strange Error message
Message-ID: <1991Feb6.171616.15057@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 91 17:16:16 GMT
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Reply-To: liggio@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Vincent J. Liggio)
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <1022@iiasa.UUCP> wnp%iiasa@relay.eu.net (Wolf PAUL ) writes:
>
>I tried installing Windows3 on a 386SX system with 2MB of RAM, and the
>installation went o.k. Windows resides in D:\windows, which is also in
>the PATH string.
>
>However, after the initial session which SETUP starts, everytime I try
>to start Windows, the initial logo screen gets interrupted with an
>error message somewhat like this:
>
>	INVALID COMMAND.COM
>	UNABLE TO LOAD COMMAND PROCESSOR, SYSTEM HALTED
>
>This is under MS-DOS 4.01.
>
>Any suggestions where to start looking?

Hmm.  I had the same problem, which occured when I was playing around with
my dos files.  I use PC-DOS 4.01.  I was using windows with my dos, (4.01
plus the corrective release), and then I reinstalled the dos system (for
unimportant reasons), and didn't install the corrective release.  When I
tried to use windows, it crashed with the same error you had.  Then I
installed the corrective release of dos 4.01, and then windows worked fine.
No idea why, but something in the command.com must be screwy.

Vince