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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Subject: Re: Startup problem with 1990 KA9Q version
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Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY
Date: 26 Apr 91 21:01:49
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In-Reply-To: mirza@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu's message of Fri, 26 Apr 1991 18:23:24 GMT
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In article <1991Apr26.182324.17596@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mirza@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Khalid Mirza) writes:

   ... I get the following error message continuously:

   	timer: ints were off!

Phil put that test in at my behest.  What's happening is that some program
in your PC is turning interrupts off, most likely a TSR.  It's better to
get that message than have interrupts turned off, because that makes
communication impossible.

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