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From: stu@voodoo.boeing.com (Stuart Liddle)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: PCTools v7.0 anomalies?
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Date: 21 Jun 91 14:12:44 GMT
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Organization: BoGART To You Buddy, Bellevue, WA
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Well, I got my upgrade to PCTools on Tuesday and have been playing with
it for a couple of days now.  I decided to install it at the same time
as the DOS 5.0 upgrade (DOS first, then PCT7).  I was impressed by the
install program with its graphical representation of how much memory it
would need for each of the various modules.  I liked the look of the shell
when I brought it up.  But, as I began to play with it some strange things
began to happen.

1) First thing I wanted to do was to install my applications in the new
application menu.  This was great, they now have the ability to list
programs under a group level on the main application menu.  So I set up my
groups: games, word processing, screen savers, utility functions, etc. Now
I wanted to see how they handled the running of a program (word processing)
by clicking on the associated .DOC file.  Well, the printed documentation 
is a bit shaky here.  Nowhere does it tell you about having to include the 
keyword "<path>" or "<file>" on the "Execute path" line when adding/editing
the application entry.  My friend "stumbled" on this one while looking
at the on-line documentation.

2) I have a 65MB drive that I partitioned into two logical drives, C: has
42M and D: has 23M.  The next thing I found out was that if PCShell is
logged into drive C: and you try to run an application that is on drive D:
you may or may not be able to bring that application up.  Anyway, PCShell 
seems to be really picky about how this is done.  I got most of the stuff
to work most of the time as long as I didn't put in any "keystrokes" for it
to run when the application starts.  

3) Now that I have been running it for a while, I cannot get the "Directory
Maintenance" (DM) program to run from within PCShell (from the "DISK" menu)
anymore.  I can run it OK from DOS.  I can even run it by clicking on DM.EXE
on the file list from inside the shell.  But, I can't run it from the menu
item on the "DISK" functions menu.  It starts but, then it says it "Can't
find the tree" or something like that and goes back into the shell.

4) Why does running PCTOOLS at the dos prompt come up with a different .CFG
file for the shell than when I run PCSHELL at the dos prompt????

I should give some info on my machine.  It's a 386sx clone, internal 2400bps
modem, MS mouse, DOS 5.0, QEMM386 (v5.0, *not* the latest ver, I know.), 65MB
hard disk (described above).

If anybody else is having "funny" problems with their new PCTools v7.0, please
share it with me and others on the net.

Thanks,