From: mlewis@cssnet.wplace.UUCP (Mark Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Why I Hate SHARE
Date: 6 Oct 92 20:08:13 GMT
Organization: The Waffle House, Waldo's Place USA


morpheus@entropy.mcds.com (morpheus) writes:
> Bob Van Cleef <revc@Garg.Campbell.CA.US> writes:
> > Needless to say, SHARE has been disabled again....
> Try using Buerg's LIST with the 'S'hare option..

[Off Topic Mode ON]
hear! hear! i'm glad to see that someone else also uses Buerg's LIST
program! everytime i turn around, i hear someone "crying" about problems
with Norton Commander and what it will/won't do.. nothing against NC but
it ain't always friendly... (besides it ain't written by Norton & Co.)
[Off Topic Mode OFF]

now to get back on topic with Waffle... has anyone REALLY found out how
to get the keys to be properly read during a shell from within Waffle? i
posted the first message i had seen about it several weeks ago and since
then i have seen 3 or 4 (at least) other messages asking about the same
thing... there have been 2 or 3 replies about removing the ANSI.SYS
driver from the bootstrap sequence...

UNfortunately, this is NOT an option for my system... this brings me to
more ?'s ... for those of us experiencing this problem...

     1. what version of DOS are we using?
     2. if DOS 5.0, is DOS loaded high?
     3. what memory manager(s) are being used?
     4. is the ANSI driver being loaded high?
     5. what (other) TSR's are loaded when Waffle is running?
     6. is an active disk compression program being run?
            (ie: Stacker, et al)
     7. if #6 is yes, which one and what version?
     8. what other ANSI drivers have been tried/tested and what
        are/were the results?
     9. Video system in use?

anybody else have anything to add? basically i want to see a listing of
software being used on these systems that are having problems... if need
be, i can summarize whatever comes in and list it back in chart form...

*MY* main goal is to fix my system, if i can help others with their's
--GREAT--! that's why i do this stuff -=B-)

as for my answers to the above questions.... here they are...

     1. MS-DOS 5.0
     2. yes
     3. BRPEMM (BOCARam AT Plus EMS memory driver),
        QEXT v2.0 (QuarterDeck 286 XMS memory manager)
     4. NO!
     5. SETVER, SHARE, BRATDISK (RAM Disk), HYPERDKX (disk cache),
        STACKER v2.0 (C:\STACVOL.000 D:\STACVOL.000), DOSKEY,
        TRAPFILE (stops u/l'ng of CLOCK$ file)
     6. yes, Stacker on two drives as noted in line 5
     7. (i guess this one is redundant, hunh?)
     8. DESQview's DVANSI, results? S.O.S.
     9. OAK Tech. VGA OTI-067 Card in MonoHerc mode on a plain
        monochrome screen (VGA monitor died a few months back)

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