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  2. From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Re: OS/2 bugs - any idea?
  5. Keywords: bugs
  6. Message-ID: <1992Jul24.190056.22343@njitgw.njit.edu>
  7. Date: 24 Jul 92 19:00:56 GMT
  8. References: <1992Jul23.132309.26321@cs.tu-berlin.de>
  9. Sender: news@njit.edu
  10. Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
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  14. In article <1992Jul23.132309.26321@cs.tu-berlin.de> dokaar@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Dirk Kaar) writes:
  15. >Starting BASIC or BASICA from a windowed session still brings down
  16. >the system with a page fault.  Started from fullscreen, all goes well,
  17. >i.e. the error is trapped, and the process is cancelled correctly
  18. >without killing the OS.
  19.  
  20. You have a PS/2 then?  BASICA shouldn't work without IBM BASIC in ROM.
  21. I run GWBASIC.EXE (from Microsoft DOS 4.01) in a window OK.  Perhaps
  22. the BASIC ROMs aren't handling the windowed environment properly.
  23. -- 
  24.    |)  David Charlap           "I don't even represent myself
  25.   /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   sometimes so NJIT is right out!.
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