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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 bugs - any idea?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.010617.4647@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Keywords: bugs
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Jul23.132309.26321@cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 01:06:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.132309.26321@cs.tu-berlin.de> dokaar@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Dirk Kaar) writes:
- >While there have been a few improvement with the fixes provide by
- >IBM, there are still annoyances that should be ironed out soon:
- >Starting BASIC or BASICA from a windowed session still brings down
- >the system with a page fault. Started from fullscreen, all goes well,
- >i.e. the error is trapped, and the process is cancelled correctly
- >without killing the OS.
-
- Correct. Delete this pair from your hard disk -- they aren't supposed
- to work on non-IBM machines.
-
- Instead, use QBASIC (which is backward compatible, supposedly, with
- GWBASIC/BASICA).
-
- They will need to fix this, I assume, just so the trap doesn't occur.
-
- >This is with the latest kernel fix applied. Though not a problem by
- >itself, this hints at an underlying bug.
- >After turning HPFS caching off with CACHE /LAZY:OFF, attempts to
- >turn it back on lock up that session, until from another session
- >CACHE /LAZY:OFF is issued.
-
- Haven't heard about that one. Have you filled out the OS/2 problem
- report form (os2prob.txt) available via anonymous ftp from
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, directory /pub/os2/2.0/info?
-
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