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- From: jreynold@nmt.edu (John Reynolds)
- Subject: Re: Why I love OS/2. (Kids, try this at home!)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.164048.10925@nmt.edu>
- Organization: New Mexico Tech
- References: <Yeg0ve_00WBMQ9W25r@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:40:48 GMT
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- >Hey, I can beat this! Try this on for size. . .
- >
- >Yesterday, I was FTP'ing from a local site, and all of a sudden, my WPS
- >crashed (BTW, this was about the 4th time its happened since April). I
- >saw the WPS close, and there was my FTP window. It was still open, and
- >FTP'ing!
- >The WPS reopened, and a few seconds later, FTP told me it was done
- >getting the 2 meg file! Pretty cool.
-
- Yes, this is *cool*, and shows OS/2's "stuff", but I have a burning
- question. How did the WPS restart itself? I posted a question a while back
- about the same topic and got no response. Is there a special parameter or
- config.sys directive to add or what? In addition, how/why did WPS crash?
- Just instantly, or did you try and start a DOS session while FTP'ing? I've
- had that very problem several times. I've got several apps (os2 or win-os2)
- going, and I try to start a DOS app, and everything hangs (though, pulse,
- PMEYES, and PMCLOCK are still busily doing their jobs--and the file system
- sync's when I Ctr-Alt-Del [only solution...no ctr-esc, etc.]).
-
- What's the deal????
-
- -Jr
- ps. I HAVE NOT DONE THIS, DO NOT KNOW IF IT'S TRUE, BUT...
- I read here, that someone runs WPS as a child process (the parent I don't
- know) so that if/when WPS crashes, he can kill it and start over. I don't
- know if this is possible or smart, but nonetheless. I'm looking for answers
- to these annoying crashes.
-
- --
- Windows...It's like a stale cookie.
- OS/2..."It's like butter" (SNL quote)
-