Re: PalmConnect won't start, can't find valid font files?
William W. Turner (wturner@path.org)
Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:57:08 -0800
A. Lester Buck III wrote:
>
> I am having trouble getting PalmConnect to run on my Windows 95 system.
> It installs without complaints, but whenever I try to run it, I get the
> initial PalmConnect screen for a second, then it exits with the message:
>
> No valid font files found in USERDATA\FONT directory (KR-29)
>
> Here is the directory of USERDATA\FONT:
>
> Volume in drive C is DEC SCSI
> Volume Serial Number is 1E9C-0451
> Directory of C:\PALMCONN\USERDATA\FONT
>
> . <DIR> 03-16-96 1:37p .
> .. <DIR> 03-16-96 1:37p ..
> BERKELEY FNT 26,436 11-04-93 1:00a BERKELEY.FNT
> BISON FNT 16,104 11-04-93 1:00a BISON.FNT
> MONO FNT 40,525 11-04-93 1:00a MONO.FNT
> ROMAN FNT 171,208 11-04-93 1:00a ROMAN.FNT
> SANS FNT 157,628 11-04-93 1:00a SANS.FNT
> UNIVERSI FNT 33,876 11-04-93 1:00a UNIVERSI.FNT
> 6 file(s) 445,777 bytes
> 2 dir(s) 32,702,464 bytes free
>
> I first installed in D:\apps\palmconn, then in C:\bin\palmconn, and
> finally I took all the defaults, but I always get the same error. I
> tried restarting in MS-DOS, too, but that didn't help.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what is wrong here? This is my first
> experience with PalmConnect. I was able to run ZDOS without
> problems.
>
> Thanks alot!
>
> Lester
>
> --
> A. Lester Buck buck@compact.com
Hello!
Like yourself I use palmconnect and Windows 95 togther. The problem is fairly simple, Windows 95
reports a DOS version that PALMCONNECT gets confused with. The solution that fixed the program
on my machine was to go to a DOS prompt and enter.
SETVER C:\WINDOWS LOADER.EXE 5.0
I then restarted the system and viola, PALMCONNECT works. What this did was tell Windows 95 to
report a 5.0 dos version when loader.exe (the start program for PALMCONNECT) asked what it was.
Enjoy.
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