Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!mks.com!andy
From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Subject: Re: FAQ & MKS
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 91 17:59:27 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.175927.24231@mks.com>
Keywords: MKS FAQ
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
References: <993@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>

I tried to send e-mail, but it bounced.

In article <993@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> jamie@macadam.tmc.edu (Jamie Purcal x8522 C5C-430 Accounting Jamie Finance) writes:
>Answer 13 in the FAQ suggests that the MKS alias for Windows should be:
>	alias -x win="C:\\usr\\windows\\win.com"
>This doesn't seem to work: it appears that the double \s are translated
>to single slashes in the stored alias, and then treated as escape chars
>on execution of the alias.  To fix this use

The FAQ has been updated.  The alias should have single quotes instead
of double quotes.

>I'm having a couple of other problems with the MKS shell:
>1.  I can't invoke multiple (windowed) versions of the MKS shell from
>	386 enhanced mode without causing severe misbehaviour:  this is
>	a bit odd, as one windowed instance is fine. (Incidently, I have
>	no problems with multiple instances of the DOS4.01 shell). I am using
>	the default pif, and have ver3.1f of the MKS toolkit.

There isn't enough information to diagnose the above problem.  What do
you mean by `misbehaviour'?  Be specific.  Please send e-mail to
support@mks.com regarding this problem.

>2.  MKS shell gives me a "no pipes available" error message when ever I try
>	to use a pipe (both within and outside windows).  This message isn't
>	documented (I have tried changing the files statement in config.sys
>	Also have looked at share and fastopen, but cannot get pipes.

This is usually caused by failure of a write operation to the pipe file
which is created in the temporary directory, usually /tmp or c:/tmp.
Make sure that TMPDIR is set to the proper directory and that files can
be created in this directory.
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