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From: bdh@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Brian D. Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MKS Kern Shell with Win 3
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Date: 17 Apr 91 21:05:36 GMT
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rob@pcad.UUCP (Ralph Brown) writes:


>Does anyone have any experience with running Win 3 starting from the MKS
>Korn shell? I start Korn shell from config.sys and then start windows in
>enchanted mode. There seem to be several problems here and there, the
>most annoying is that attempting to use a PC-NFS (Ver 3.5) printer from
>WfW, it freezes the whole computer. There seems to be some problems with
>the resource compiler finding its files using the PATH. If I run telnet
>from windows it occasionally crashes Windows if I hot key in and out of
>telnet.

>None of this happens if I start from normal command.com

Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this!!!

Ok, well don't do that.


Ok, now for those of you that didn't see the humor in the situation:

According to SUN the current telnet cannot be swapped to the background.
you have to be running telnet under windows, or exit telnet to do
anything windowish.  They apparently are selling somone else's working
telnet as 'enhanced telnet' while they fix their own.

I use telnet with all their recommended pif settings and swap it into
the background and just put up with it crashing windows about once or
twice a day.

As for the printer, you should check to make sure that you are using
the LPT1.OS2 device (or LPTwhatever you use) and if you want to use
a postscript printer, tell PCNFS that it is a postscript printer as
well as telling windows (otherwise your printer will print the
postscript commands instead of what you think it should do).
--
"Hire the young while they still know everything."