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- From: it1@ra.msstate.edu (Tim Tsai)
- Subject: Re: OS/2-The User's View
- Message-ID: <it1.712529349@Isis.MsState.Edu>
- Organization: Mississippi State University
- References: <1385@swuts.sbc.com> <7735@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:49:09 GMT
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- ygoland@edison.seas.ucla.edu (The Jester) writes:
- >The question I have for everyone reading
- >this post is:How much trouble have you had with os/2?
-
- Not all that many really, but generally quite frustrating because it's
- very difficult to track down the source of the problems in OS/2 (maybe
- it's because of my lack of experience with it)...
-
- >My own problems including:Having applications sit in my print queue
- >refusing to print (even though the printer is on and connected
- >correctly).
-
- This has never happened to me and I print quite a bit from various
- applications. postscript printer on lpt1:
-
- >Having the entire system freeze up (the mouse still
- >works but after an hour (and repeated ctrl-esc attempts) the system
- >REFUSES to allow me to do ANYTHING.
-
- This has only happened to me once or twice *AFTER* the system
- has started. I never waited an hour though. :-). I've had it
- siting idle for a long (5 minutes or so, I'm not very patient)
- time before a boot and rebooting the machine usually solves my
- problem.
-
- >Lost disk drive, the system, for
- >some reason, couldn't find my d drive (which is a virtual drive
- >whose 'E' section is where os/2 boots)
-
- Nope. I have a C: primary partition for DOS and a D: HPFS partition
- for OS/2.
-
- >and gave me 'this application
- >is not responding do you wish to kill' I repeatedly said yes with
- >the pop up disapearing, nothing happening and then it appeared
- >again.
-
- Yeah, OS/2 doesn't seem to have a solid "kill" system call at the
- moment. Generally if you close all your applications the killed
- programs will go away though.
-
- >This type of freezing is MUCH rarer than windows, but never
- >the less I can expect SOME type of problem at least once a day. Am I
- >alone?
-
- Most of my problems is on starting up, but once OS/2 is up and
- running, it generally stays running until I go to bed at night.
-
- Hope that helps.
-
-