Pentium Floating Point Correction
DPC/TRACK is carefully designed to provide you with complete and accurate information. Since some of this information involves numeric calculations, and since DPC/TRACK performs these calculations quickly by making use of your
computer's floating point processor, it unfortunately is affected by the Pentium floating point calculation problem. In keeping with its design, DPC/TRACK informs you immediately if it detects a Pentium processor with the floating point
error. If you receive such a message, we recommend that you contact the manufacturer for a replacement processor.Until you receive a replacement processor, you can force most Windows applications (including DPC/TRACK) to use software floating point emulation, thus bypassing the Pentium problem. To do this, you will need to acquire the program HIDE87.COM, which is available as part of the WINFLOAT.EXE self extracting file from the Microsoft Software Library (MSL). You can download WINFLOAT.EXE from the following services:
- CompuServe
GO MSL
Search for WINFLOAT.EXE
Display results and download
- Microsoft Download Service (MSDL)
Dial (206) 936-6735 to connect to MSDL
Download WINFLOAT.EXE
- Internet (anonymous FTP)
ftp ftp.microsoft.com
Change to the \SOFTLIB\MSLFILES directory
Get WINFLOAT.EXE
HIDE87.COM is a small TSR that you must load before running Windows. It
"fools" Windows into thinking that there is no floating point processor. To load
HIDE87.COM, just copy the file into the root directory of your startup drive
(normally, this means C:\ ) and edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to run HIDE87
before running Windows.
