news@sun.uucp (news) (05/11/88)
Fatal exit codes come from little pieces of error-checking code inside
Windows and indicate that things are unrecoverably screwed up. You can
get a list of the fatal exit codes and their meanings from the Windows
developers's forum on GEnie. One of the most common is 007, which
means an invalid window handle.
They're usually caused by program bugs. As an end user you can't prevent
them. You could try making sure there's plenty of free memory, since
low-memory conditions will trigger many intermittent bugs.
You really shouldn't be getting them at all. As far as I know, the
error-checking code which produces fatal exits exists only in the
debugging version of Windows distributed to developers. If the retail
version encounters a serious problem it simply locks up your machine.
The only real solution is to move your work to a stable windowing
environment like the Mac.
Fred Wamsley
"Last year they got food poisoning. This year they got Bill Gates"
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