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From: twright@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Thomas Wright)
Subject: Re: Memory parity error detected. SYSTEM HALTED.
Keywords: WINDOWS 3.1, CRASH
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:57:56 GMT

In article <1992Sep13.061626.8684@ee.ubc.ca> johnt@ee.ubc.ca (john jay tanlimco) writes:
>In article <1992Sep12.234254.6893@techbook.com> jwettern@techbook.com (Joern Wettern) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep10.162106.14993@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>>>In <1992Sep10.133717.21198@funet.fi> ms86817@cs.tut.fi (Matti Suokko (OH5MRM)) writes:
>>>
>>>>	SYSTEM ERROR: Memory parity error detected. System halted.
>>>
>>>
>>>>	What will cause the error message above ?
>>>>	When I upgraded WIN 3.0 to WIN 3.1 it worked fine, but then
>>>>	I formatted my HD and installed WIN 3.1 again, and 
>>>>	now it crashes 50 times a day. 
>>>
>>>This is generally caused by either bad memory or having memory with
>>>different speed ratings (on some motherboards).  The reason it worked
>>
>>That seems to be the case for me.  I have 2M of 80 ns SIMMS and 2M of 70 ns
>>SIMMs.  What I don't understand is WHY this would cause a partity error.  My
>>system needs 80ns and everything faster should not make any difference.
>>Would anyone care to expalin this to me?
>
>I have 4 1x9 80ns and 4 1x3 70ns running Win3.1 happily.  Are you sure
>you don't have bad SIMMs?
>
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  I suspect your machine arranges its RAM like most SX's, with 2 SIMM slots
per bank.  You can usually use 80 ns in one bank and 70 ns in the other, but
if you're using memory interleaving it will fail sometimes.  The reason is
that interleaving, like page mode, is a way to refresh some DRAM while another
area is being read to simulate zero-wait-state operation.  The timing 
difference in the DRAM between banks throws the address decoder out of sync,
and you get parity errors.

twright@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu
From: sxrbs.orca.alaska.edu@raven.alaska.edu (Bob Stratton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: PC world install watcher utility
Date: 14 Sep 92 23:07:31 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska, Fairbanks

I read in PC World - or was it PC Week - recently about a utility that 
monitors any program install in Windows. It produces a listing detailing 
what changes were made to win.ini etc. and shows locations of new files.
Can anyone shed any light on where I might locate this useful util?
Any help appreciated.
Bob Stratton,
University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK
PS: It snowed again today.....groan
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: pcjg7045@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Pramod C. John)
Subject: Newer Faster Drivers for Tseng ET3000 ??
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:05:30 GMT

Hi, 
	I was just browsing through an article in PC magazine about video cards
and the importance of good drivers for them.  I am wondering whether newer 
faster drivers are available for an ET3000 based card.  The version I have is
about 2.5 years old and is version 3.2.  

Thank you for your assistance.


Pramod John


-- 
Pramod John, Dept. of ECE at UIUC 
email: Pramod@uiuc.edu
"Blessed are the peacemakers"- Jesus Christ
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: gilem@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile)
Subject: Re: 2 questions about fonts
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 16:14:47 GMT

In article <oneil.716272323@cwis> oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil) writes:
>mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
>
>>(1) Where can I get a TrueType font for Cyrillic (Russian)?
>>
>Well, I know I saw an ad in an old PC Computing that had Cyrillic and other
>exotic typefaces and I thought they were truetype, but they're Postscript.
>The name of the company is Worldfont for Windows at 1-800-223-0123.  I 
>have absolutely NO connection with this company whatsoever.  But at least
>you might find what you're looking for.  It says nothing about how much 
>they charge for their fonts.  I know that in the last Adobe ad I got in the
>mail, they had Cyrillic as well.  So you might look into that.  Again, I
>have no connection with Adobe either.  
>>Sharon O'Neil
>oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu
>


I have been looking for Cyrillic fonts also.  I have seen worldfont 
advertising, but they want $200 for theirs, which is absurd.  Does anyone
know of adobe's cyrillic fonts that are mentioned here?

Mike
gilem@rpi.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: varkki@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Varkki George)
Subject: Re: Corel Draw 3.0 CD-ROM Edition (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 17:44:30 GMT

In article <715580987.9246@minster.york.ac.uk> ken@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>Tony Thomas (aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:
>: COREL DRAW 3.0
>: CD-ROM Edition
>:  
>: Reviewed by Tony Thomas
>: file manager.  To duplicate what is included in this package would cost
>: double or triple the street price.  It is easy to use, well integrated
>: and will make you look great on paper, even if you have limited graphics
>: skills.  Five Stars *****
>
>What you don't say is that it's as buggy as hell. Half the time is bombs out

>version of 3.0. If you buy Corel make sure to get this. And there's no point
>trying to mail them: my e-mail to support@corel.ca is "pending" (uucp
>politely informed me that it would try for another few days to deliver the
>mail). I'm _supposed_ to receive a free upgrade. Have I? You guess.

>it. Assuming that the latest release fixes the bugs (and fixes some really
>_really_ annoying user-interface irritants like the way the text roll-up
>doesn't seem to persist the settings properly) I would definitely vouch for
>its suitability.

amen to all your comments. i acquired corelDRAW very recently, and
nothing seems to have changed. it has tremendous potential, but lousy
user-interface design, documentation, and customer support make it
really frustrating to use.

varkki george
-- 
Department of Urban and Regional Planning  | E-mail: varkki@uiuc.edu
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Tel:    217.244.7059
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: doc@magna.com (Matthew J. D'Errico)
Subject: Re: Corel Draw 3.0 CD-ROM Edition (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
Organization: Magna Software Corporation
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 17:38:22 GMT

In article <189docINN8eu@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas) writes:
>In a previous article, ken@minster.york.ac.uk () says:
>>Tony Thomas (aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:
>>: skills.  Five Stars *****
>>
>>What you don't say is that it's as buggy as hell. Half the time is bombs out
>>[...]
>>trying to mail them: my e-mail to support@corel.ca is "pending" (uucp
>>politely informed me that it would try for another few days to deliver the
>>mail). I'm _supposed_ to receive a free upgrade. Have I? You guess.
>>
>I've never experienced the bugs you describe in the above message.  Are
>you sure it is a Corel problem?  It could be a problem with Windows 3.X
>or with you hardware.  With Windows, you have no way of knowing.  Run
>Dr. Watson and see waht kind of messages you get.

Alas, COREL is right now completely innundated with support calls...
Methinks they released too early !  And with a Beta cycle that was second only
to MSDOS 5.0 !

The good/bad news is that they just told my wife a week ago that they've
got a maintenance release being shipped on diskette...  As a CD user, 
I find that annoying, but I thought you'd want to know about the release...

-- Doc
>
>-- 
>aa699@Cleveland.Freenet.EDU/GEnie=A.THOMAS16/Compuserve:71541,3456
>TONY THOMAS - SIGop - Audio Arts SIG - Cleveland FreeNet
>"True riches is not what you have - It's the kind of person you are"
>
From: brettw@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett D. Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: More questions on WinQVT/net
Date: 10 Sep 1992 14:16:33 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

elee969@elroy.uh.edu (Brown, William J.) writes:

>Thanks to all who responded to my earlier post about the config file for
>WinQVT.  I have another question.  The news option in the services menu is not
>available.  I have the news server listed in the config file.  Is there anything
>else I need to do?

  I had the same problem until I had my IP address put into the host
database, ie. the news server.  I went ahead and assigned my machine a
domain name as well.  Might be your problem.

-=- Brett
-- 
  Brett Watson, 915 Calflin Rd. Manhattan, KS  66502, (913) 776-5951
  ==================================================================
	brettw@matt.ksu.ksu.edu | brettw@holonet.net
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: dfoster@mdd.comm.mot.com (David Foster)
Subject: Re: Looking for religious clip art
Organization: Motorola - Mobile Data Division; Richmond, BC
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:09:09 GMT

There is a magazine dedicated to the distribution of religious oriented
software, etc.

I will try to find the name/address and email it to you.   

Dave


Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From:  volt@kaskad.msk.su (Shirin Vladimir Voltovich)
Subject: Does anyone know tools for edit TT font ? 
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:23:30 GMT
Reply-To: volt@kaskad.msk.su
Organization: SV KASKAD
Keywords: TrueType Font create edit 
Summary: I want to buy tools for creat or edit TrueType font

Hi,
Please, say me how to creat or to edit Truetype font
or where I can buy tools for it ?
Sincerely,
Volt Simon

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: tony2@prefect.uucp (21131-gozdz)
Subject: Re: Request for Experience Information on Windows X Servers
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 13:32:16 GMT

In article <60073@mimsy.umd.edu> davecarr@cs.umd.edu (David Carr) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I am about to purchase an X server and wonder if anyone has any
>experience (good or bad) with one of the following products:  Xvision,
>Vista-eXceed/W, HCL-eXceed/W, and PC-Xview for Windows?  I am
>interested in performance, post sale support, and ease of
>installation.  Also, there may be feature differences between them
>that are not obvious from the sales fliers.  I would appreciate
>hearing from anyone with expericence with any of these products.
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>David Carr

Dave et al.:

There is a good introductory review of five X servers
for Winows in the August 24 issue of Digital News and
Review (merged Digital News  &  Digital Review).
According to the review, HCL-eXceed/W is the top
package, the Digital product (forgot its name) - could
not be recommended because of incompatibility and other
problems.

Tony

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: FTP Sites
From: hippo@sonoma.edu (Michel Davidoff)
Date: 8 Sep 92 08:53:38 PDT
Distribution: na
Organization: Sonoma state university

In article <Bu47z2.Csx@cs.dal.ca> moore@ug.cs.dal.ca (Heath Ernest Moore) writes:
>Subject: FTP Sites
>From: moore@ug.cs.dal.ca (Heath Ernest Moore)
>Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 17:16:13 GMT
>Does anyone know of any good FTP sites that have lots of Windows software?
>
How about FTP.cica.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: re: Emm386 Execption error #12 P
From: Stephen Gibson
Date: 8 Sep 92 16:30:52 PDT
Organization: Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 


In article <hippo.42.0@sonoma.edu> hippo@sonoma.edu (Michel Davidoff) writes:
>When I run marknet and relnet I often get the message 
>Emm386 Execption error # 12 P
>And then my system halts. I think that the p is the begining of 
>a parity error.
>I looked in the DOS 5.0 manual and there is no clue to 
>what the error is.
>Help ????
>
>Michel Davidoff

What version of MARKNET/RELNET are you using?  The current 
versions are 3.0/3.1. Earlier versions may not be compatible 
with DOS 5.0.

Stephen Gibson
From: gordy@endor.uucp (Robert Gordy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Memory parity error detected. SYSTEM HALTED.
Keywords: WINDOWS 3.1, CRASH
Date: 10 Sep 92 14:20:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: das.1992Sep10.142000.3363
Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University

In article <1992Sep10.133717.21198@funet.fi> ms86817@cs.tut.fi (Matti Suokko (OH5MRM)) writes:
>
>	SYSTEM ERROR: Memory parity error detected. System halted.
>
>
>	What will cause the error message above ?
>	When I upgraded WIN 3.0 to WIN 3.1 it worked fine, but then
>	I formatted my HD and installed WIN 3.1 again, and 
>	now it crashes 50 times a day. 
>
>	Should I install 3.0 first and then upgrade it again to 3.1 ?
>	
>
>	--Matti Suokko 
>

Doesn't sound like a Windows problem to me.  Sounds more like
a general memory problem (ie. one of your memory chips is bad).

Rob
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: re: Environment Size for Non-Windows Applications
From: Stephen Gibson
Date: 15 Sep 92 14:48:37 PDT
Organization: Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 


In article <1686395F1.ELURONA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> ELURONA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (R. Elul) writes:
>Does anyone know how to increase the environemnt size available to DOS
>applications running under Windows 3.1?
> 
>R. Elul
> 
> 
> 

Check the following statement in your SYSTEM.INI file:

[NonWindowsApp]
localtsrs=dosedit,ced
CommandEnvSize=xxxx
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^

where xxxx is the enviroment size for dos apps.  Hope this helps!

Stephen Gibson
Sonoma State University
eMail:  gibsonst@vax.sonoma.edu


Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.misc:2842 comp.os.ms-windows.setup:1186 comp.sys.zenith:770
From: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Re: windows driver for Zenith EGA card
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 17:33:05 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Distribution: inet
Reply-To: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu

|In article <Bu74Ew.4M7@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, jaap@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu 
	(Jacob Vanmilgen) writes:
|>I have an 'old' Zenith 286 (desktop) with a Z449 Advanced Graphics Adapter.
|>This is an EGA card but it is supposed to display at 640x480 (16 colors)
|>with the appropriate drivers.
|>I bought the computer in 1988 and it came with MS-Windows 2.0.  A driver
|>(called win480.drv) was included.
|>
|>The question: are there any updated drivers (Windows 3.x) for this video
|>              card available or is it possible to use the old driver?
|>
|>Thanks
|>
|>Jaap van Milgen
|>jaap@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
|>

 I have the same machine. I just use the windows ega driver. Although
it is supposed to be a low-end vga, with vga driver the display
always garbles. With windows ega driver it works fine.

	-Anis.
From: marcr@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Marc Rassbach)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Windows .BMP File Format &/or function library for Borland C/C++
Date: 13 Sep 1992 21:57:50 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Department MSCS
Distribution: world
Reply-To: marcr@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Marc Rassbach)
NNTP-Posting-Host: studsys.mscs.mu.edu
Originator: marcr@studsys.mscs.mu.edu

Hello all

I am Posting from a friends account, My name is Bob Marsh and I'm 
currently working on my senior design project at the Milwaukee School
of Engineering.  For this project I'm looking for the format of
ms-windows .bmp file format.  We have searched in the archives
and FAQ's for any information.

So I am desperately reaching out to anyone that can help me find
any format information on .bmp's or any .bmp function lib's that
are compatable with Borland C/C++ 3.1 

My account is marshr@kirk.msoe.edu or email this account as the 
owner does not read this group

Thank you, 
     Robert J. Marsh

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Marc Rassbach    marcr@studsys.mscs.mu.edu    If you take my advice, that
MS-DOS - it's not   marc@milestn.mil.wi.us    is your problem, not mine!
my problem!     If it was said on UseNet, it must be true.
   Unix - It's a nice place to live, but you don't want to visit there.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ELURONA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (R. Elul)
Subject: Remapping the Keyboard under Windows 3.1
Organization: Yale University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 10:42:33 EDT

Anyone know how to remap the keyboard under Windows 3.1?
 
Thanks in Advance,
R. Elul
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Subject: Re: HUGE swapfile??
Organization: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:02:39 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.183142.17751@primerd.prime.com> mguyott@eriador.prime.com (M. Guyott) writes:

>You are almost right.  What the original poster has found is Windows
>"permanent" swapfile.  This is the only swapfile that is hidden.  If you
>use a "temporary" swapfile then you can see the swapfile name in the
>root directory of the drive you specified.  I believe it has a .swp
>extension.  A permanent swap file is always on your hard disk and insures
>that Windows will always have this amount of swap space on your disk.  A

	I actually installed Windows 3.1 again on my machine after I put in
a 340MB disk, and startlingly, given my 20MB RAM, it seemed quite keen on 
telling me that a swap file of 75MB would be a good idea.

	Needless to say, I set it to 12MB and had a good chuckle.

	Toodlepip!
	Marc 'em.

-- 
  storm@cs.mcgill.ca           McGill University         C program run.  Run  
  Marc Wandschneider           Montreal, CANADA          Program run! PLEASE!
      "When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not." - Yoda
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mguyott@eriador.prime.com (M. Guyott)
Subject: Re: HUGE swapfile??
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:31:42 GMT

In article <BuKwAv.JMn@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> jeffb@audiolab.UWaterloo.ca (jeff bamford) writes:
>In article <1992Sep14.131810.16367@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> cargibbs@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Rick Gibbs) writes:
>>	It seems that Win is creating a huge (12 meg) file in my root
>>directory with a Hidden attribute.
>>
>	Sounds like you found Windows Swapfile.  However, Windows
>should erase it if you exit properly.  Never turn your computer off
>without exiting Windows, if you do all those temp. files are not erased.

You are almost right.  What the original poster has found is Windows
"permanent" swapfile.  This is the only swapfile that is hidden.  If you
use a "temporary" swapfile then you can see the swapfile name in the
root directory of the drive you specified.  I believe it has a .swp
extension.  A permanent swap file is always on your hard disk and insures
that Windows will always have this amount of swap space on your disk.  A
temporary swap file is created when you start Windows and removed by Windows
when you exit Windows.  If you reboot in the middle of Windows (or your
machine goes south for some reason (-8 ) then you can see the temporary
swap file using the DOS "dir" command.

Marc
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is nice but not necessary, and a knowledge of sex is necessary but not nice.

Marc Guyott              Constellation Software, Inc.          (508) 620-2800
                         Framingham, Mass. 01701 USA                Ext. 3135
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From: stecker@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott D. Stecker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: WFW 2.0 EQUATION EDITOR HELP NEEDED
Date: 14 Sep 92 06:20:17 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

I have recently upgraded to WFW 2.0 and Win 3.1  and when I try to use the 
equation editor it comes up with the message "fences font cannont be 
displayed on your printer" (at least it is of that effect), it has the same
message for the ms extra font. I know this question has been asked before, and
thought I remembered a post with a solution to this problem. I have an HP
Deskjet 500 printer, and am running a Compaq 33mhz 386 with 4mb ram and a 
coprocess (if that might make any differnce). Any help would be greatly
appreciated as I would really like to get the equation editor working soon.
 send email to stecker@gn.ecn.purdue.edu
 Thanks again.
 Scott Stecker
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ketil@edb.tih.no (Ketil Albertsen,TIH)
Subject: PKUNZIP v.2.0 ??
Reply-To: ketil@edb.tih.no
Organization: T I H / T I S I P 
Posting-Front-End: Winix Conference v 92.05.15  1.20 (running under MS-Windows)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:12:44 GMT


There is a file at ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the win3/sounds directory,
called muzika.zip, that requires PKUNZIP v.2.0 for uncompressing,
according to the info in the file. I haven't seen v.2 anywhere, but would
very much like to decompress this file. Where can I find PKUNZIP 2.0,
or alternatively, an uncompressed version of muzika.zip?

(If the answer is that v.2 is a fully commercial product rather than
shareware, then I think it is a bad idea using it to compress files
uploaded to anonymous ftp sites!)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: jwettern@techbook.com (Joern Wettern)
Subject: Re: Memory parity error detected. SYSTEM HALTED.
Keywords: WINDOWS 3.1, CRASH
Organization: TECHbooks --- Public Access UNIX --- (503) 220-0636
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 23:38:45 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.133717.21198@funet.fi> ms86817@cs.tut.fi (Matti Suokko (OH5MRM)) writes:
>	SYSTEM ERROR: Memory parity error detected. System halted.
>
>
>	What will cause the error message above ?
>	When I upgraded WIN 3.0 to WIN 3.1 it worked fine, but then
>	I formatted my HD and installed WIN 3.1 again, and 
>	now it crashes 50 times a day. 
>
>	Should I install 3.0 first and then upgrade it again to 3.1 ?

I had the same problem.  Apparently, Win 3.1 is much more sensitive to
certain hardware problems than previous versions.
In my case I get this error message very often when I access a floppy drive,
especially when using Central Point Backup for Windows.  I finally figured
out that I can avoid it by changing my memory configuration.  I have an
older 386SX with interleaved memory.  When I disable interleaving,
everything works fine but the machine is a little slower.  Apparently, Win
3.1 is trying to access memory before it has benn refreshed.  I haven't
called Microsoft yet, but I heard that in similar cases they said there was
nothing they could or would do.  Maybe I'll call after all .....



>	
>
>	--Matti Suokko 
>
>-- 
>Matti Suokko                   OH5MRM
>Mekaniikanpolku 6 A 36         Packet radio: OH3MRM@OH3RBR.FIN.EU
>SF-33720 TAMPERE               Internet: ms86817@cs.tut.fi
>Tel: +358-49-626362            Fax: +358-31-185985
>-- 


-- 
  --  Joern Wettern
      jwettern@techbook.COM

Using Unix almost makes you want to own a Macintosh.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ELURONA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (R. Elul)
Subject: Environment Size for Non-Windows Applications
Organization: Yale University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 10:39:45 EDT

Does anyone know how to increase the environemnt size available to DOS
applications running under Windows 3.1?
 
R. Elul