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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Windows USELESS with MSDOS 5.0!!!
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.190021.16781@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 26 Jun 91 19:00:21 GMT
References: <1991Jun24.135235.29349@news.nd.edu> <4956@gumby.Altos.COM>
Reply-To: poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, ATE division, San Jose, Ca.
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In article <4956@gumby.Altos.COM> jesse@gumby.Altos.COM (Jesse Chisholm AAC-RjesseD) writes:
>In article <1991Jun13.235553.24042@netcom.COM> feustel@netcom.COM (David Feustel) writes:
>>Now that I've got your attention, the problem is that Windows cannot
>>find any of my non MS programs when I attempt to invoke them via the
>>program manager. I've spent some time trying to get hold of MS to ask
>>about this, but I can't get through and the $$$ are adding up.  All of
>>these programs start properly under PCDOS 3.3. Is it possible that MS
>>didn't test dos 5.0 with windows?!!!
>
>I, also, am using MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.0.  To run a DOS app, create
>a PIF file for it and then use it.  There should be no problem.
>If the application does some strange things with memory, then Windows
>may kill it off, but most run just fine.
>

Make sure that you have enough "FILES" specified in you config.sys. 30 should
do.

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