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- From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: HELP - OS/2 hangs (but not completely)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.214533.17268@unixg.ubc.ca>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 21:45:33 GMT
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- Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- What I have been doing is developing DOS programs under OS/2
- using Microsoft C version 6 (text, no graphics). With OS/2,
- I do the compile/link in one window. And while it's working away,
- I can jump to another window to work on another file (or whatever
- other thing I want to do but they will all be DOS stuff). This
- arrangement has worked well except every once in awhile, when I
- do a Ctrl-Esc to switch to another window, I'll get back to desktop
- the Window List menu shows up, but than hangs. I can't move the
- cursor with my arrow keys and I can't click anything with my mouse
- although my mouse cursor does move. I can't press all the keys in
- the world which eventually fills the keyboard buffer and OS/2
- beeps back at me. The mouse moves around but I can't click on
- anything and both buttons have no effects. I have the system clock
- sitting at one corner it seems to be still running. In fact, all
- the jobs that I do have running at the time seems to keep running
- fine (I can see the disk light going and when I think it is finish,
- I reboots and look at my log file for this program and it shows
- that it did finish ok). So for some reason, Ctrl-Esc freezes my
- keyboard/mouse input once the Windows List menu pops up. But as
- I said, it would work fine and then it hangs.
-
- Patterns, it seems to happen only when I'm compiling with the
- MSC 6 in one window, and it doesn't matter what I have in any
- other windows. I;ve read the README file and it has no mention
- of problems with MSC 6.
-
- System, I have a 33 mhz 486, ATI XL 1 Meg running at 1024x768x256
- mode, Logitech Mouseman (Bus).... nothing else special.
-
- Anyone seen this before? Ctrl-Alt-del works by the way. And that's
- how I reboots and carry on where I left off except OS/2 sure takes
- one heck of a long time to start up!
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
- Thomas.
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