Running any DOS program in a DOS box in Windows is a crap shoot. The simple
answer is don't do it.
A few suggestions (in order or preference):
1) Take a DOS boot disk and boot DOS from the floppy and run NA.
2) Boot into DOS-Mode of Win95
3) Run in a Window, change settings (iterative), & pray
Important thing to point out based on your note:
> Ports are free and clear according to win95 device mgr.
That is wonderful, problem is that NA is NOT a windows program and is not using
any of the windows services. NA goes right for the hardware, as do most DOS
programs (for various reasons). Windows DOS is not created equal with normal
DOS (in the way it handles most things).
I have it running in a DOS window in WIN95, it took some doing and I still have
problems from time to time. I can't deal with that so I reboot the machine
using a DOS disk. This gives me no problems. I like no problems!
73's Tim K9TM
--- Forwarded mail from Burt Eldridge <eldr@sover.net>
To: <na-user@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 13:19:04 -0400
To: na-user@contesting.com
From: Burt Eldridge <eldr@sover.net>
Subject: [na-user] NA on win95/Pentium
Reply-To: Burt Eldridge <eldr@sover.net>
>
>Hi. I have been using NA for some time but only with DOS 6.22 on a 486
machine. I need to run it on my Pentium laptop with win95 for Field Day.
Does not seem to work there. Ports are free and clear according to win95
device mgr. Tried with three different Pent/win95 machines. Can it run
under the win95 version of DOS? Am I missing something??
>
>Thanks/73
>Burt,w1zs
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