* In a message originally to Shurato, Nick Andre said:

 > 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.

It was the DPMI executables.  I was finally (after using the command.com
environment to run the commands) able to upgrade my fastecho to 1.46pl1.
It's running well now.

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