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From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
Subject: Re: Help!  Phar lap???
Message-ID: <1993Apr16.024724.10322@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 02:47:24 GMT
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Spectre (spectre@nmt.edu) wrote:
: Could some one tell me what:

: Phar Lap err 35: The 386 chip is currently executing in virtual
: 8086 mode under the control
: of another program.  You must turn off this other program in order
: to use 386|DOS-Extender to run in protected mode.

: means.

: This shows up on a CompuAdd Express 486-33 whenever a program 
: such as Matlab or Maple is run.  It has been tried under dr-dos
: 6.0, msdos 5.0, and 4dos 4.01.  There is nothing, nada, in memory.
: Nothing appears on a virus check.

: Anybody?

: -- 
: spectre@jupiter.nmt.edu                       spectre@cyborg1.nmt.edu
: "This world?  And everything in it?  *Illusions*, Richard!  Every bit
: of it *illusions!*  *Do you understand that?*"      -- Donald Shimoda


I used to get this problem with AutoCad when using the NOEMS switch with 
EMM386.EXE in DOS 5.0.  If you allocate some ram to EMM386 the problem 
should go away.

TMC.

