Hello Archie!

*** 23.10.03 at 23:58, Archie Swan wrote to Martin Foster:

 AS> You wrote on 21.10.03 about "new beta Version OpenXP (3.8.13)":

 AS> [snip]
 AS>>> Aha! - but ......
 AS>>> On trying the 32bit DOS version as a x-check, no
"?" or "ticks"
 AS>>> appear.

 MF>> I've just d/loaded and installed the 3.8.14-19 (DOS32) snapshot
 MF>> and I can confirm that there are no "ticks" or
"?" here either,
 MF>> which indicates to me that, even though all my archivers are on
 MF>> my path, OpenXP doesn't see them.

 AS> Same in a clean DOS environment - not being found at all.

Confirmed here under MS-DOS.

I find this a total pain because it makes OpenXP (DOS32) unusable for a  
FidoNet Point :-((

 AS>>> And - when I attempted to use the Archive Viewer to look into
 AS>>> known decent .ZIPs etc., I got loads of error messages
 AS>>> suggesting that the archives were faulty :(

 MF>> Same here.

 MF>> I've noticed something else as well .....

 AS> Also getting that non-existent B: drive being indicated ?!!?

Also confirmed under MS-DOS.

 AS> Here's another.  Remember, some time ago, I mentioned "bad
 AS> graphics" - i.e. mixture of strange characters when/where the
 AS> various borders are on the main screens.  ?

Yes, I remember that very well.

 AS> Still happening on the clean DOS box - did you ever get that one
 AS> Martin ?

I'm afraid I can't confirm that under MS-DOS, sorry chieft.
"Graphics" are clean as a whistle here under MS-DOS.

JOOI, the only stuff I have loaded in addition to a bog-standard MS-DOS  
install is MSCDEX, DOSKEY and HIT-IDE.SYS (CD-ROM driver). Everything that  
*will* load high *is* loaded high and I've changed the standard FILES=20  
to FILES=50 and I have NOEMS on the EMM386.EXE line.

Regards,
Martin

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