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aabdalla@pollux.usc.edu (Ahmed Abd-Allah) writes:


>We have written a piece of software that uses a home-grown, text-mode
>windows library.
>...

>Unfortunately, something is simply not working.  Our customer has the
>same software running on an IBM PS/2 with no problem.  But on the 
>above IBM-compatible, at a specific place in the code, the program
>consistently locks up.  We have gone over this area of the source 
>over and over again, and we can see nothing wrong.
>
>One last thing: We asked our customer to send us the computer he was
>using to check it, and we sent him a replacement (another IBM-compatible
>with EGA card, non-IBM PS/2).  The funny thing is we can run the 
>software perfectly in our lab off the computer he sent us!  And what's
>worse is that the new computer we sent him is also failing now too!!
>One more last thing: Our customer uses our system in a clean room.  Is
>there enough noise to mess up program execution - but in the same place
>consistently?!?

With this information given i would tend to say that your customer probably
has an electricity problem. If you're dealing with any peripherals in the
code that locks up, i.e. accessing a printer or a built-in streamer, the
power needed to operate the system increases rapidly. If the electrical in-
stallation is at end, there might be not enough resource to supply the power.

Anyway, if that isn't the case you may email the piece of code here or at
my email-address below. Probably we'll find something obscure in there.

>Thanks for reading this, and more thanks if you can help us...
>Please email at "aabdalla@pollux.usc.edu"

You're welcome...

>Ahmed

frank
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