Hello Shurato!

Friday September 06 2024 12:13, you wrote to Nick Andre:


 Sh> * 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.

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

This is working now?

Regards,

Rick

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