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- From: evanc@carbon.isis.org (Evan Champion)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: lstpm102.zip on hobbes locks my computer!
- Message-ID: <726363804snx@carbon.isis.org>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 23:43:24 GMT
- References: <1ibntmINNscr@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- Distribution: world
- Organization: carbon.isis.org
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- ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca writes in article <1ibntmINNscr@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>:
- > Are you sure? Are you using Beta 2.1 or anything strange/non vanilla,
- > approved by IBM? Using Service Pack?
- >
- > Because when LstPM hangs, I press control-esc, then wait a few seconds
- > (it isn't instantaneous) without pressing other keys or jiggling the mouse,
- > and the system pops up a menu, offering to kill it (Program not responding..)
- >
- > I'm a little more worried about OS/2 not intercepting, and offering
- > to clobber the program, than worried about the buggy program itself.
- >
- > If you are in the mood for a cold boot and 10 minute long auto chkdsk,
- > try the bug again and see if OS/2 doesn't come through and save the day.
- > (does on mine)
-
- It will NOT hang the system if you put the help file in the HELP path. I
- found that it would hang (until the box came up asking to kill it, only 10
- seconds) without it.
-
- Evan Champion "I protest sir; I am not a merry man."
- evanc@carbon.isis.org -- Windows crashes yet again on Mr. Worf
-