From: hurd@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter L. Hurd)
Subject: WP5.1 crashes DV-386 on exiting, help!
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:45:47 GMT

Hi, I'm running DV-386 on a 386, with 4 Meg of RAM, MS-DOS 5.0.  I've
had nagging problems for a year, but they've been escalating in a really
serious way.  Biggest problem is WP5.1 crashes the whole thing on exiting.
I'm really not into messing with volitile systems, so I'm putzing around
with DOSSHELL, but I'd love to get DV happening right.  So here's some 
system info, and some intermediate level (I'm climbing this learning curve
pretty slowly) questions.

Pete's CONFIG.SYS
device=c:\qdk\qemm\qemm386.sys r:1 st:m ram
{note I used to have ia in here, but dumped it tyring to get things down
 to minimum complexity}
dos=high
files=99
buffers=40
stacks=0,0
country=044,,c:\dos\country.sys

Pete's Autoexec.bat
@echo off
c:\utls\virals\mcafee\vsheild\ /copy /lh /lock /m
c:\qdk\qemm\loadhi /r:1 c:\dos\doskey
prompt $t$h$h$h$h$h$h $p$g
path=c:\;c:\dos;c:\qdk\dv;c:\qdk\dv\dv-utils;c:\qdk\qemm;blah blah blah...
c:\qdk\qemm\loadhi /r:1 mirror c: /tc
call c:\utls\unpathed\dkey
set dircmd=/p/a/o:gn
set temp=c:\misc\tempfile
set tmp=c:\misc\tempfile
call c:\utls\path\cal.bat
dosshell

the WP wp-pif.dvp stuff
mem size 400k
program wp.exe
parameters /nk {fixed my stickky shift key, I tried dropping this and
                it didn't help, I had it doing TAME-RUM, with WP.EXE /NK
                on the parameter line, ran nicer but still crashed on
                exiting}
directory c:\wp51
options  writes to screen N
         disp  graph inf  Y
         virtualize ..    N
         ser prts         N
         rec flop         N
{I doesn't seem to if I run it under a Big Dos window, so I changed these
to match BD, and it still crashed, these were the way I found it when I
first got it going (I suppose) so I did'nt mess with them, I hope.

Advanced options
Sys mem 5k
max prog mem  {blank}
script buff   {1000}   {I have wp scripts but no DV scripts for WP, can
                        I set this to zero?}
max exp mem   {blank}
txt pg        1
graph pg      1
init          {blank}
interrupts    00 to ff
shared program
pathname      noff.shp  {what the hell is this, it has the same date as the dv
                    program files, but I can't find a reference to it in the
                    dv manual?}
data          {blank}
close on exit Y
allow close   Y  {it crashed at other times & ctrl-alt-del returned to the
                  dv menu, if I wasn't worried about it crasheing it'd be
                  set to N}
use 387       N
share cpu     Y
can swap out  {blank}
use own colourY
run in bkgnd  {blank}
key brd conf  0
share ega     Y
prot level    0 {i set this to one and it crashed giving me an invalid op
                 code message, then allowed me to terminate the program, a 
                 low impact crash I guess, but at least it didn't freeze the
                 whole thing up.  Usually I can't do anything but go for the
                 reset button, even ctrl-alt-del won't do anything}

Other possible hassles sources,
I have a start up script load Background2, I got rid of it, no diff, so
I put it back in.
I changed the DESQ key to Sysreq, well sort of, I tried turning off the
 ashift, ctrl, and alt keys, leaving just Sysreq and it wouldn't DESQ
 key for me without ctrl-alt-del (which acted as the DESQ key!?) so I
use a ALT Sysreq key, WP pulldown menus conflicted with alt as the DESQ
key, and since I have this history of stickky shift problems in WP51,
I want a way to save files if they keyboard goes fubar}

Unrelated DV questions, xx-pif.dvp files, when re-installing a program, or
if I get a new program and it comes with a .dvp file, how do I get it used.
Do I put it in the DV or the app directory.  What I've been doing is adding
a 128k dos window in CP using the new app startup keys, then copying the
app .dvp over it in the dv dir.  Then changing the name and program &c in
the dv cp option to that of the new app.
Why doesn't the backdrop have a window number?  Just curious, neat trick!
Can I get rid of the close window & exit qv are you sure window stage things?
Doskey whereart thou?
DO VSHEILD and F-PROT work under DV?
Just what is protection level all about anyway?  Why am i suggested not to
use them?
Thanks a lot for any help with this
-P.
-- 
-- Pete Hurd, hurd@sfu.ca          |"So I've got this 22Meg output file..." |
Behavioural Ecology Research Group |"Yeah, well delete it."                 |
Dept.Biol.Sci., Simon Fraser Univ. |"But how will I know what it says"      |
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