>I tried to be smart. I've put a copy of prime95 (v16.4.1) on a diskette.
>I filled in all the forms appearing on the screen. I had the program
>running for a while, it performed some factoring. I then shut down
>program in the regular manner. I was able to restart it once more. I
>shut it down again, and wanted to start it again.
>
>It now reports however:
>
><unknown>
>
>This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.
>
>Quit all programs, and then restart your computer. If the problem
>persists, contact the program vendor.
>
><UNKNOWN> caused an exeption c0000006H in module <unknown> at
>0000:bff833c4
offhand, I'd bet the P and Q checkpoint files did not fit on the floppy. They
are over 1MB each. Its probably trying to load these and not handling the
premature EOF very well.
-jrp