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Article #41289Re: Stumpers
From: Barton A. Fisk
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 20:22
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 20:22
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In article <3404@rti.UUCP>, bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright) writes:
> In article <355@marvin.moncam.co.uk>, emmo@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson) writes:
>
> The usual way is that the computer got rebooted while there were files open.
> Could be caused by any number of things: power failure, hardware problems,
> program bugs, user error (rebooting at inopportune times in the program).
>
I have found that using ^C to abort a program will sometimes
do this also. But how else to you get out of a dead-lock other
that Ctrl-Alt-Del. Perhaps DOS is not as well behaved as some
would lead us to believe.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!holston!barton From: barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Stumpers Summary: using ^C will sometimes cause this Message-ID: <5660@holston.UUCP> Date: 11 Jan 90 20:22:08 GMT References: <21990002@hpvcfs1.HP.COM> <25A51804.9795@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <3404@rti.UUCP> Organization: Barton A. Fisk & Co. Lines: 16