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| 2892.1 | re-install Windows | PERFOM::MATTHES | | Mon Jan 27 1997 13:57 | 9 |
| I had a similar problem.
The 3.5 drive A in my case, would work fine under Dos but not under
windows. I don't recall the exact symptoms, let's just say it was
broke. I reinstalled windows and it worked fine.
Who says software doesn't spoil.
I can only surmise the floppy driver got creamed somehow.
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| 2892.2 | | WRKSYS::INGRAHAM | Andy | Wed Jan 29 1997 15:01 | 2 |
| Short of a re-install, anyone know settings in system.ini (for
example) that might be more easily changed?
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| 2892.3 | Try SET TEMP=C:\TEMP | KETZEL::CHAFIN | | Thu Jan 30 1997 13:37 | 19 |
| The university that I attend has the same problem in a lab
of 486 machines running Windows 3.1
If I remember correctly, the problem was mainly with MS-Word.
Word uses a lot of temp files, and when you open from a floppy
drive, for some odd reason it tries to create a temp file
on the floppy. Something bad happens (I don't know what)
and then it crashes. The university fix was to add
SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
in the autoexec.bat. I think this tells windows as well
as word to use drive c: always for temp files.
However, I think I still had problems, so I always copy files
to the hard drive. Try the SET TEMP=C:\TEMP (be sure the
directory exists) and see if that helps.
Craig
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| 2892.4 | That's not it | WRKSYS::INGRAHAM | Andy | Thu Jan 30 1997 15:19 | 4 |
| He's already got the "SET TEMP=C:\TEMP" in there. Some time ago it was set
to C:\DOS (perhaps the Windows default installation does that?), and we had
a fun time last year clearing out hundreds of .tmp files in his DOS
directory.
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| 2892.5 | University consultant says... | KETZEL::CHAFIN | | Tue Feb 04 1997 16:35 | 25 |
| This is the reply that I got from a PC consultant
at the university...
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The only similar situation that I know about is Word (all the way
back to version 1.1) and floppies. It seems that if you open a
file in Word directly from a floppy, bad things generally happen.
It seems that Word needs to make temporary files on the current
drive, and the current drive seems to be selected based upon where
you opened the last file from.
This is why I argue against letting Word deal with floppies or
files on them and instead first move/copy files with File Manager
to a hard disk.
-Paul
Paul Probst, Associate Systems Engineer
E-mail: Paul.Probst@UC.EDU
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So, apparently if you want to get around this problem, you have
to tell MS-Word where to ALWAYS put the temporary files.
I don't know if this is possible in a WORD.INI file.
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