Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!silver!ntaib From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 Questions Message-ID: <1991Apr3.180703.8924@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington References: <1991Apr2.155841.4106@meadow.uucp> Distribution: comp Date: Wed, 3 Apr 91 18:07:03 GMT Lines: 57 *>I have just got Windows 3.0 over the weekend. I have a 33MHz 386 clone with *>2 Meg of memory. I have the following questions and hope to get some answers. I'd add another 2 Megs at least if I were you. 2 Megs is pretty minimal on a Windows machine. *>It seems that Windows can run in enhanced mode only if HIMEM.SYS is installed. *>The problem is if HIMEM.SYS is installed it takes up all the extended memory *>available such that I cannot run programs like Lotus 123 version 3.0 under DOS *>with modifying config.sys and reboot. Is there a way to limit how much *>HIMEM.SYS can take? See above. >I was trying to run Lotus 123 version 3.0 in Windows enhanced mode and it >complained about not liking 123 to switch into protected mode. It seems to >work in standard mode. Question: is there a way to run 123 version 3.0 in >enhanced mode or is it hopeless? I've never been able to get 3.0 to work with Windows. Thats why Lotus released 3.1 (which still doesn't run quite right). There was a package called "3 for 3" that let you run the OS/2 version of Lotus 3 (shipped "free" with the Dos version) in a Window, and it even added a nice mouse friendly menu bar to the window. It sort of became obsolete when 3.1 came out. Come to think of it, I've had problems getting Lotus 2.0 to run under Windows. It doesn't care whether I run in a window, full screen or from a command.com session. It just quits suddenly. No error messages, nothing. And it always quits 15 seconds after launching. Weird. We'll have to wait for Lotus for Windows (L4W?) and retire our Lotus for Dos. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iskandar Taib | The only thing worse than Peach ala Internet: NTAIB@AQUA.UCS.INDIANA.EDU | Frog is Frog ala Peach Bitnet: NTAIB@IUBACS ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------