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- From: jreynold@nmt.edu (John Reynolds)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Why I love OS/2. (Kids, try this at home!)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.142327.7231@nmt.edu>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 14:23:27 GMT
- References: <1992Sep11.164048.10925@nmt.edu> <1992Sep14.005339.7208@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Organization: New Mexico Tech
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- >As soon as the WPS starts, it starts up a second process which monitors the
- >first (or it could be the other way around) and if it detects it dying then
- >it simply reruns it. This is why the WPS will simply reappear when you kill
- >it.
- >
-
- Ok. Now that I know how/why the WPS restarts itself, someone tell me what
- *this* crash is, because it doesn't sound like the WPS crashing. Several
- times, I have been working with OS/2 (typical programs running are, a windoze
- app or two, a couple of 4os2, or 4dos windows, and maybe asteroids :-), when
- I come out of the win-os2 session I can see (just for a split second) that
- the DOS colors are fubar on the screen (I have my global dos-autoexec.bat
- type an ANSI file on dos-box start ups). When I see that that happens, if
- I try and start _any_ app that relies on starting another dos session, OS/2
- will hang. Although, pulse, pmclock, and pmeyes still seem to be doing
- what they're supposed to. And when I do c+a+del, I hear the file system
- being sync'ed. What is this bizarre lockup? I've got 16Mb of ram in my
- machine, and not many apps going on at once.....
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- Rest of setup: Gateway 486/33T, ATI Ultra, Meg 15" mon., 200Mb ide drive.
-
- Could someone please shed some light on this crash. I've been told by people
- that it's the WPS that is hosing me, but now I'm confused. By the way, Ctr-ESC
- and all mouse/keyboard input was *useless*.
-
- Thanks
-
- -Jr
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- --
- Windows...It's like a stale cookie.
- OS/2..."It's like butter" (SNL quote)
-