I have a really weird one for y'awl:
I use DOS 6.22 on a P5/100, and I run share.exe with Qemm memory manager,
as my Brainex door games require it. A few days ago, I started getting a
'loadhi exec failure' error when my system booted. After scouting around,
I found that c:\dos\share.exe was 0 bytes! Thinking it was 'just one of
those things', a HDD gliche maybe, I re-loaded share.ex_ from the DOS
6.22 setup diskette to the c:\dos dir, and used expand.exe to inflate it
back to its 10k size, which seemed to work. Consequent re-bootings and the
same error showed that the damned file still comes up at 0 bytes! So I
thought I would "outsmart" it (right!) and put share.exe into a different
dir and path it as such in config.sys... and yep, it outsmarted me with the
SAME error again, although the alternate share.exe in the other dir is fine!
I scandisked, the HDD is fine, I did a virus scan, no problems there, either.
Qemm's Optimize doesn't help here, either. So what gives here?? I should add
I load share with qemm in both autoexec and config.sys altho' DOS HELP says
nothing of this practice. I do it because that is the way the machine came
configured when I got it, and it *used* to work fine in that fashion.
Thanks!
ZED!
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