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- From: steveh@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US (Steve Harding KA6ETB)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,sbay.waffle
- Subject: Fun with MS Windows
- Message-ID: <wm3auB2w165w@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 16:16:55 PST
- Distribution: sbay
- Organization: The GRAFex Company
- Lines: 28
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- I found an interesting thing quite by accident.
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- Waffle was merrily chugging along with a uuxqt job, when I
- inadvertently started uuxqt in another window.
-
- It appeared that the two windows leapfrogged each other whilst
- unbatching. It was fun to watch...for awhile. When they both tried
- to open the same batch, things got crazy.
-
- One would expect the system to lock up. It didn't. I lost my Windows
- desktop; the monitor reverted to the most colorful 80x25 display.
- Colorful little ASCII characters were all over the place...except for
- line 25. One of the uuxqt windows was still perking along at the
- bottom of the screen.
-
- Whenever it got to the end of a batch, it'd stop. Pressing ^C would
- send it off with the next batch.
-
- Needless to say, once the unbatching was complete, I gave it the
- 3-finger salute, and vowed to myself to be more careful.
-
- Ain't computers fun?
-
- steve
-
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- A prince trapped in the body of a dirty old man.
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