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- From: thijs@cs.vu.nl (Doorn van MAB)
- Subject: Re: HELP - OS/2 hangs (but not completely)
- Message-ID: <BuB2r2.LxI@cs.vu.nl>
- Sender: news@cs.vu.nl
- Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
- References: <1992Sep2.214533.17268@unixg.ubc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 10:06:38 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
- : 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.
- ...
- : 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.
- ...
-
- I have the same problem, but not with MSC, but with WCED. It's a command-line
- editor, just like CED, but with file name completion (DOS-program)
-
- I have tried to discover why and when this happens. I found the following
- clues:
-
- * It only occurs when I run WIN-OS/2 (or have run)
- * It only occurs when one RETURNS from WIN-OS/2
- * Dos settings don't have any influence
- * It happens about 75% of the times I work with both WCED and WIN-OS/2
- * It has nothing to do with INI-files, because I tried it with the original
- INI-files just after installation.
-
- Although this will not help Thomas, maybe someone else has the same problem.
- If so, please let me know. I am considering sending a bug-report to IBM.
-
- Matthijs van Doorn
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