Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx386 not connecting

[Doug Kaufman]

On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Marc D. Williams wrote:

> > about starting with a clean boot to a minimal DOS system, only loading
> > any drivers actually needed to run the system and an environment at
> > least large enough to hold all the variables? If lynx runs on the
> > bare-bones system, then it is a matter of adding back each line from
> > config.sys and autoexec.bat, one by one, until lynx stops working.
> >                                 Doug
> 
> Thought about that this morning actually. Had my fingers crossed but
> still no go. My clean boot only consists of the following (I use boot.sys):
> CONFIG.SYS
>    buffers=20
>    FILES=30
>    shell=c:\4dos\4dos.com /p
> AUTOEXEC.BAT
>    set path=c:\dos;
>    c:

Since nothing else seems to be the problem, maybe it is the ndos shell.
I don't know if anyone else has tried lynx with ndos. Can you try
substituting "shell=c:\command.com /E:1024 /p" for the ndos line and
see if lynx works. I presume you still have a MSDOS or PCDOS command
interpreter around somewhere. With the above minimal configuration what
does your environment look like (i.e. is there a COMSPEC=something)?
By the way, what is "boot.sys"?

If ndos turns out to be the problem, we'll have to see if some MSDOS
specific code got into the DOS port somehow.
                              Doug
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