🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 06:01:54, "Graham" <norrisg@nospamlinkline.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 03 Apr 1999 07:47:42 +1000, Neville Cobb wrote:
> 
> >I had a very similar experience in that when I started some file management
> >my hard drive started thrashing about and the system appeared to hang.
> >Peculiar things occurred whilst the hard disk was thrashing.  I noticed that
> >my available memory decreasing and my swap file growing, then when the swap
> >file reached around 60Mbyte I noticed that my available  memory had increased
> >from zero to approx. 40Mbyte. Very weird indeed.
> >
> > At first I thought it was OD2 as it only occurred when I was operating OD2.
> >But after much persistence I found that the problem was not in OD as it
> >occurred with OS/2 file management tools. It was all linked to a file ( the
> >WIN95 download file of Star Office 5.0, about 65Mbyte) and the fact that it
> >was on a DOS partition. When I moved the file from root into a directory
> >everything behaved normally whenever I accessed the root of that DOS drive. I
> >even reinstalled my system (FP10) but it still behaved the same when I open
> >the directory where I put the file. I don't understand how this particular
> >could affect OS/2 in this manner. I have not gone beyond this point to try
> >and reason out this particular phenomena.
> >
> >If anyone has any idea on why-is-it-so I'd like to see your response.
> 
> Not sure why OD has been excluded as the potential problem here: you don't
> have to explicitly open bits of it to make one of its many registered
> classes work. The question is, has anyone without OD seen the problem?
> Can't say I've seen this problem however, and I do use OD.

I have found, and reported over the last year or so, several distribution 
file EXEs which produced very strange behaviour under the WPS.

In each case, the files seemed to have come from programmers using Open32. 
That was as far as I could get on my own, and no one else seemed to have 
anything further.

The files in question would not display their icons under FileStar/2, and 
were virtually undeletable (or movable) from the directories they were 
unzipped or otherwise installed into. I always had to boot to a pure 
command line and DEL them.

Among these files were a Netscape202 build I snagged off testcase, a 
WordPro96 update that came straight out of a Lotus distribution, some Star 
Office files and some SS97 files, both of which I've disposed of here. They
were all EXEs, and none showed any attributes or EAs that appeared to be 
causing it, to my limited view.

The EXEs all appeared to work normally, which is to say, adequately. Open32
does not produce code optimized for *my* machine, and I'm going to be doing
my best to avoid using it if possible.

I'd love to know what can make such an EXE unmovable under PMSHELL, but 
easily movable otherwise. Might be useful, somehow.

Good luck,

Buddy

Buddy Donnelly
donnelly@tampabay.rr.com