Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!linus!linus!mwunix.mitre.org!jcmorris From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) Subject: Re: Volume serial number as copy protection? Message-ID: Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Nntp-Posting-Host: mwunix.mitre.org Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA References: <2442@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au> <1991Jun20.124820.2501@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> <1991Jun20.195905.15366@d.cs.okstate.edu> <1386@argosy.UUCP> Date: 24 Jun 91 12:46:25 GMT Lines: 19 egb@argosy.UUCP (Ed Bradford) writes: >I have just installed MS-DOS 5.0 and everything works find EXCEPT windows 3.0. >Even it works find EXCEPT in standard mode: > win /s >Since PC-NFS doesn't work in enhanced mode, I am stuck. Anyone else out there >have this problem? I got 627K of memory back using all the umb stuff and it >all seems to work fine, except this little gotcha. Solutions would be >appreciated. Either post to news or send mail to me directly. Any chance you're running EMM386 to get access to the UMB's? If so, there is a documented restriction (which Microsoft will hopefully fix someday) which says that if EMM386 is running then Windows standard mode will not work. Real and enhanced mode will work OK, but EMM386 and standard mode get into a fight over who controls protected mode. Standard mode Windows will abort during startup with an error complaining about some other program running in protected mode (I don't recall the exact error text). Joe Morris