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From: shepard@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Brett Shepard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Problem with FASTBACK PLUS and Windows
Message-ID: <12568@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 91 00:41:53 GMT
References: <114.27EAF365@tdkt.FIDONET.ORG>
Reply-To: shepard@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Brett Shepard)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <114.27EAF365@tdkt.FIDONET.ORG> David.Stever@p36.f40.n282.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Stever) writes:
>
> CB> From: gt7865a@prism.gatech.EDU (COMER,MATTHEW BRIAN)
>
> CB> Whenever I try to run fastback plus in Windows, my system crashes
> CB> with the message "DMA Buffer too small --
> CB> Try DMABUFFERSIZE=016 in SYSTEM.INI"
   [...]
> CB> to crash right away. Put in later,
> CB> it has no effect. Can anyone help??
>
>Call Fifth Generation tech support, but I think that FB just isn't 'Windows friendly' enough to run in Windows.
>

I was under the impression (quite possibly mistaken) that anything that tried
to take over the dma (i.e. any backup program) was incompatable with win.

If I'm wrong, please correct me!

bds

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