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From: pa1022@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Eric Hedstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows/386 from batch files
Keywords: print, crash, batch files
Message-ID: <1490@sdcc15.ucsd.edu>
Date: 5 May 89 22:12:25 GMT
References: <1483@sdcc15.ucsd.edu> <448@dev386.UUCP>
Reply-To: pa1022@sdcc15.UUCP (Eric Hedstrom)
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Organization: University of California, San Diego
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In article <448@dev386.UUCP> beckman@dev386.UUCP (Zacharias Beckman) writes:
>In article <1483@sdcc15.ucsd.edu>, I write:
>> to narrow down the cause, and found it: when I run Windows/386 from a batch
>> file and then try to print, it crashes.  If I run it straight from the 
>> DOS prompt, it works fine.  Windows/286 works fine either way.  Any 
>
>We run Windows/386 from a batch file (MSDOS 3.3) all the time here, without any
>problems.  Perhaps you need a newer version of DOS, or perhaps the problem has
>been midiagnosed...

I have PC-DOS 3.3 and Windows/386 2.1.  I don't think the problem has been
misdiagnosed, because the crashes depended only on whether Windows was run
from a batch file.  Nothing else had any effect.

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