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- From: rstanton@garnet.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: DOS window refuses to close (NOT a specific DOS session)
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:50:32 GMT
- Organization: Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley
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- I recently tried to see if there was something on a floppy (3 1/2) disk.
- It was in theory a DS, HD disk, but I think something went wrong with it at
- some stage (it was used as a PCTOOLS backup disk, and now cannot be
- formatted)
-
- Anyway, I typed "DIR" from a DOS box, which just sat there forever, disk
- whirring. I couldn't kill the process (I tried closing the window and using
- KILLEM), and eventually rebooted. By the way, this was not from a specific
- DOS session - I know about the little program that closes these.
-
- This seems like it should be rescuable, but it reminds me that I've had other
- situations where DOS boxes just refuse to die. I double click and agree to
- lose all data, but they don't go away. I try using the KILLEM (I think
- that's its name), which says it's killed the process, but it's still there.
- I can't shut down, because the window refuses to go away.
-
- Is this a common problem, and is there a known solution? It doesn;t happen
- all that often, usually after some sort of crash, but Ctrl-Alt-Del is the
- only solution I've found when it does occur
-
- Richard Stanton
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