Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!uw-june!uw-entropy!dataio!bright From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: SETUP programs Message-ID: <1540@dataio.Data-IO.COM> Date: 6 May 88 21:41:48 GMT References: <1510@slvblc.UUCP> <45900126@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright) Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA Lines: 17 My beef about MSC51 setup is that it crashes my IBM AT. That's right, merely type SETUP and then you have to go for the Big Red Switch. It turns out that the problem is that SETUP won't work with the Quadram EGA. I run lots of ega text and graphics programs on my EGA, and the only ones that have failed are Codeview (unless you use the -p switch) and SETUP. Why does a simple file-copying program require register-level EGA compatibility? I wonder how this will sell in the Japanese market, where the machines are not even BIOS compatible. Interestingly, OS/2 does work with my crusty old QuadEGA+. I guess my main beef is trying to figure out how to create the combined libraries without SETUP. The manual should contain instructions for doing a by-hand installation. MOPAR rules.