On Monday, January 27, 2014 9:20:02 AM UTC-8, erec...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Bear,   
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   > I assume you are using MBBS4EVER?  It sounds like to me that you are   
   attempting to start the BBS via BBS.BAT instead of BBS.PIF which sets up the   
   correct comspec environment which has enough buffers so that MajorMUD will not   
   run out of contiguous    
   selectors.   
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   > Start MajorBBS via C:\BBSV6\BBS or C:\BBSV6\BBS.PIF but not C:\BBSV6\BBS.BAT   
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   > Here is what the MBBS4EVER docs say about it:   
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   > DO NOT START MAJORBBS BY RUNNING C:\BBSV6\BBS.BAT. It will initially start   
   but when it loads MajorMUD you'll get a nice red box with an error that says   
   "Out of contiguous selectors!". USE "C:\BBSV6\BBS"!   
      
   Yeah I was running bbs from the command line.  But you are right it was still   
   launching the bbs.bat file when I did "bbs" from the commandline.  The pif   
   file says it's an invalid file.  Tried to rename the .bat file and it wasn't   
   able to launch from the "   
   bbs" file.  Then trying bbs.pif from a commanline gives me a "NTVDM CPU has   
   encountered an illegal instruction."   
      
   So I will hunt for a world group setup out there.   
      
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