91742522@ucs.uwplatt.EDU ("WHAT, ME WORRY?") (04/04/91)
remember me? I'm the kid with the report due on space, then I got the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. my teacher thought I was nuts. (hope they dont pull my subscription for that) ;) well, my pro-350 crashed again. running p/os 1.7 and executed an application prose, when I pressed the F12 key to get a pull down menu, the last couple of rows of the screen turned into garbage and it locked up. shut it off, turned it on and ran prose again, F12 worked fine. this is the first time it crashed and didnt give me the graphic error message. I have yet to see any pattern to what causes the crashes. am going to start a log to keep track of them, maybe I can find a pattern. once I ran a self diagnostic test (an application program) and it said there was an error with the math processor, but every time I've run it since then says its fine. the point of all this is: "does this sound familiar to anyone?!?" I thought this might be caused by a bad section on the hard drive, that might be causing this. is there any way I could check this? otherwise I'll keep a log and post again after I get a few crashes. onto the subject of software, if DEC has released its PRO software as freeware, is there someplace that distributes the latest copies (please, oh please, don't flame the neophyte for asking this), and if this includes DEC released applications, does that mean the Command Language is also freeware? (i have version 1.x and it sorely needs upgrading) Greg Bartels