darrenp@dibbler.cs.monash.edu.au (Darren Platt) (06/28/91)
I haven't been reading this group for long so I'm not sure if this is in the FAQ list, but I've noticed for a while that anything that would normall provoke an abort, retry, fail from DOS (pops up a cancel/retry window under windows) has this uncanny ability to either hang my session or drop me out to DOS immediately (and dos don't like it) losing whatever I was doing at the time. The simplest way to provoke this response is to bring up a file requestor and click on [a:] with no disk in the a drive. Is this phenomenon perculiar to my system (a 386 - usually run in enhanced mode) ? Yours sincerely, Darren Platt. darrenp@dibbler.cs.monash.edu Monash, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia. (core dumped)
mathew@mantis.co.uk (Industrial Poet) (06/29/91)
darrenp@dibbler.cs.monash.edu.au (Darren Platt) writes: > I haven't been reading this group for long so I'm not sure if this is in the > FAQ list, but I've noticed for a while that anything that would normall > provoke an abort, retry, fail from DOS (pops up a cancel/retry window under > windows) has this uncanny ability to either hang my session or drop me out > to DOS immediately (and dos don't like it) losing whatever I was doing at the > time. You're probably running the debug version of Windows without having redirected AUX: to somewhere sensible. mathew