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From: gerten@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de (Rainer Gerten)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: window386
Keywords: window386 fails
Message-ID: <1775@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de>
Date: 16 Feb 90 14:38:21 GMT
References: <748@eedsp.eedsp.gatech.edu>
Reply-To: gerten@uklirb.UUCP (Rainer Gerten)
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, W-Germany
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Summary:Start with "win386", not with "win86"

In <748@eedsp.eedsp.gatech.edu> wchung@eedsp.gatech.edu (W. Chung) writes:
>	I have some problem in running any exe, com, or bat files
>in window386.   Except for the exe files that is in window386 itself runs,
>all other fails.  For example, I try to run the basic or basica in dos
>within the window environment, but it give me error as
>386 window not correctly installed!  So I tried to install it over again but
>it still does'nt work.   So as a last resort I use pifedit to change pif files
>of basic and basica and try running the pif instead, but it fails again.

This problem occurs, when you start windows 386 without the virtual
machine manager. This means, you have to start with "win386", not
with "win" or "win86". If this doesn't help, check if there are
the needed boot-files available (win86, win386, win.ini etc.)

Rainer Gerten
University of Kaiserslautern
Federal Republic of Germany
mail: gerten@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de