Windows 2.0.3 bug (feature?)

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From: laba-5ac
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 1988 23:18

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   My friend and I were playing around with Windows 2.0.3 by running
a whole bunch of programs in different windows.  One of the programs
was a little C program that just infinite looped around printing a 
message.  The trouble was when we tried to stop Windows.  When we tried
to exit, Windows said that the program was still active and that we
couldn't exit.  OK - then we tried to close it, but we couldn't, because
it was still active.  We tried issuing Ctrl-Breaks and Ctrl-C's to the
program, but it didn't work.  Eventually, we just rebooted out of Windows.
Does anyone know any way to stop a program in an infinite loop in Windows?
This seems like a feature that should be added more than a bug, but it
is very irritating...


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Erik Talvola          laba-5ac@widow.berkeley.edu

"I don't impress easy." -- Jesse "The Body" Ventura
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Subject: Windows 2.0.3 bug (feature?)
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