From owner-ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu Thu Jul 10 14:30:48 1997 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] [nil "Thu" "10" "July" "1997" "16:47:00" "-0400" "bill@att.com" "bill@att.com" nil "30" "16-bit subprocesses accessing the A: drive" "^From:" nil nil "7" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from joker.cs.washington.edu (joker.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.42]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.8.5+CS/7.2ju) with SMTP id OAA21443 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 14:30:48 -0700 Received: from trout.cs.washington.edu (trout.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.178]) by joker.cs.washington.edu (8.6.12/7.2ws+) with ESMTP id OAA37959 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 14:30:47 -0700 Received: (majordom@localhost) by trout.cs.washington.edu (8.8.5+CS/7.2ws+) id NAA24584 for ntemacs-users-outgoing; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 13:50:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from june.cs.washington.edu (june.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.4]) by trout.cs.washington.edu (8.8.5+CS/7.2ws+) with ESMTP id NAA24580 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 13:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cagw2.att.com (cagw2.att.com [192.128.52.90]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.8.5+CS/7.2ju) with SMTP id NAA18451 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 13:50:41 -0700 Received: from lynxhub.lz.att.com by caig2.att.att.com (SMI-8.6/EMS-1.2 sol2) id QAA12370; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 16:59:28 -0400 Received: from CARPENTER.cis.att.com ([135.46.61.210]) by lynxhub.lz.att.com (5.x/EMS-1.2 sol2) id AA16200; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 16:48:20 -0400 Message-Id: <7783-Thu10Jul1997164706-0400-bill@att.com> X-Mailer: emacs 19.34.1 (via feedmail 8-beta-2 Q) WJC; VM 6.32 under Emacs 19.34.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk From: bill@att.com (WJCarpenter) Sender: owner-ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu To: ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu (NTemacs Mailing List) Subject: 16-bit subprocesses accessing the A: drive Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 16:47:00 -0400 The FAQ says this: faq> If you are finding that running 16-bit programs as subprocesses faq> cause your A: drive to be accessed (hanging Emacs until a timeout faq> occurs if no floppy is in the drive), check to see if you have faq> McAfee Virus Shield installed. Users have found that disabling faq> Virus Shield causes the problem to go away. Also, if you have a faq> better fix for this problem, let me know or send mail to the faq> list. I found out a small piece of more specific information (though still not a complete cure or understanding). I didn't like having to disable VirusShield's background scanning to get the subprocess stuff to behave. I'm too dumb to remember to turn it back on (and I'm too dumb to remember to disable it until I see some subprocess thing just sitting there waiting for the timeout). At least as of McAfee VirusShield 3.0.2, there is a configuration check box called "Scan disks on Access". The help says that it will "scan for viruses on floppy disks which are accessed". That seems generally useful, but if you uncheck the box, the A: drive problem goes away. Since you probably only care about the A: drive problem if you have a detachable floppy drive that usually isn't in use, you might like to disable that check. Of course, when you are actually using the floppy drive, you should probably turn checking of it back on. -- bill@att.com (WJCarpenter) +1.908.576.2932 AT&T Labs Internet Architecture Division PGP 0x6FE5EF2D 87 14 F5 7D 02 74 9C 80 31 73 7E 72 09 3C 22 39