* In a message originally to Shurato, Rick Smith said:
> 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?
Well, I've got 1.46pl1 running instead of 1.46 which should send netmail more
reliably through a binkley frontend. I'll try again; I lost a days worth of
messages accidentally. It could have been worse... Thank goodness for
backups!
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