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- From: mg@elan (Michael Golan)
- Subject: Re: BUGS! in os/2! (How to backup OS/2 efficiently?)
- Message-ID: <mg.711699029@elan>
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- Organization: Princeton University, Dept. of Computer Science
- References: <jdecarlo.161.711389251@mitre.org> <1992Jul19.064430.23255@news.columbia.edu> <1992Jul19.083358.21786@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Jul19.170427.21870@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 06:10:29 GMT
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- mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
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- >The other day I ran into a bug which compunded this problem. No matter what
- >I did, OS/2 wouldn't print! I finally decided to copy the file to a floppy,
- >boot DOS, and print from there. However, OS/2 decided to *lock* the file,
- >and I couldn't *copy* it!!! Naturally, I was not amused, and the tech at
- >IBM support, had *no* idea what to do. So I rebooted OS/2 and tried again,
- >and it was no longer locked! I booted DOS, and printed the file. From then
- >on, OS/2 has been printing, again!
-
-
- I had a similar problem. A dos application would CRASH, but OS/2 return
- to the command line in the dos window. The file that should have been
- closed by 'DOS' was 'forgotten' and running the application again got it
- just STUCK! (locked for the file).
-
- >I wish IBM could get out a set of comprehensive bug fixes *now*! There are a
- >lot of quirks which we haven't even begun to discover, and it would be
- >impossible to figure them out until they are no longer compounded by other,
- >known, bugs!
-
- >:-(
-
- H E R E ! H E R E ! IBM are you listening?! STOP CALLING OS/2 a
- 'QUALITY SUCCESS' and get the bugs fixed! NOW!
-
-
- >It is experiences like these that make you want to scream, and trash OS/2.
- >But, of course, I can't do that, since my system is HPFS, and I don't have a
- >good way to back everything up!
-
-
- It's mail from IBM about WIN 3.1 support & 32-bit engines, together with
- 'os/2 is a quality success' that makes me want to puke!
- At least I wasnt fooled into installing HPFS (HyPer HyPe File Sys?),
- so I can always boot dos, thanks god.
-
-
- Michael Golan
- mg@princeton.edu
-