On 05 Sep 24  19:30:00, Shurato said the following to Digimaus:

S> Ok, I've upgraded again and am not doing the stuff that made it crash (befor
S> and after packing commands).  The thing is though, this all worked just fine
S> until recently and I hadn't changed anything other than restoring from a
S> previously working backup.  My experiences with VMs are flaky.  Often I'll
S> change something and it won't take effect.  I'm using fastec16 instead of
S> fastecho now and feutil16 instead of feutil.

Not sure what OS you're on but just throwing this out there, that Microsoft 
did something to NTVDM after XP where its just not reliable for DOS stuff.

I've written about this many times in the past, I can't really "prove it" but 
go by the few times I've tried to migrate my BBS to anything beyond XP and 
things just randomly crashed. For no reason, just happened. Didn't matter of 
the hardware or anything that our resident Professor can chime-in on. Anything
beyond XP and the NTVDM environment is unreliable... period.

Nick

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