Win 95 & Arev 31 (AREV Specific)
At 30 APR 1998 02:49:29PM Ginny Cummings wrote:
I get "incorrect DOS version" error messages from ARev on Win95 workstation. Changing COMPSEC in System Login did not fix it.
I have a Novell network with a few Windows31 workstations and one Win95 workstation (needed to run some Win95 ONLY software). I dont use NLMs because they fight with my faxserver. Win95 fights with the faxserver so the Win95 workstation cannot use the faxserver.
Questions:
1) Customer Service said I should get Arev NLM. Will this kill my faxserver on my Win31 workstations?
2) Would a better solution be:
a) format drive of Win95 workstation, load Win31, upgrade to Win95 BUT as a 2nd operating system and run Win31 with ARev & faxserver and Win95 ONLY with the software thatrequires it?b)....Thank you.
At 30 APR 1998 03:21PM bob wrote:
I think there is an DOS program called 'SETVER'. I think it is used to foll the system into thinking you are using the correct
DOS version. Look it up in you DOS documentation and try it.
Bob
At 01 MAY 1998 03:37AM Charles Schmidling wrote:
The "incorrect DOS version" is a MS-DOS error message and has nothing to do with Rev. It means you have conflicting versions of DOS on your machine. This can happen when you upgrade to Win95 and keep the old DOS.
COMSPEC only points to COMMAND.COM and must point to the one in the WINDOWS subdir.
You may be executing something in your sign on batch file that points to the old DOS subdir that could give you this error. Just speculation.
Much Luck,
Charles Schmidling
DATASCAN Systems, Inc.
At 01 MAY 1998 09:01AM Aaron Kaplan wrote:
If NLM's and Win95 are killing your fax server, I'd look into the fax server and talk to their people and see if they have an update. If not, maybe you should see about getting a different fax server.
If you're running with a Win95 station, you're going to need the NLM or the NPP. No two ways about it.
As for the COMSPEC problem, Charles and bob are correct, somewhere something is setting it incorrectly, either in the system login script, user login script or a batch file somewhere.
apk@sprezzatura.com
At 06 MAY 1998 02:09AM Bob Gerrish wrote:
I have been running AREV 3.12 off and on on WIN 95 with no problems. You must have multiple versions of DOS on your machine as Charles Schmidling stated. At a DOS prompt. type SET and see what system variables are set. You should have a COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM It is possible that you are calling a .BAT file that is using an old version of COMMAND.COM. Another problem I have seen was an old version of COMMAND.COM left when someone got ahold of a OSR2 version of WIN 95 and upgraded from the original versions of WIN95. The two version of WIN95 are NOT compatible nor are they considered the same DOS versions. (If VER returns 4.00.1111 you have OSR2, 4.00.0950 is the original version.)