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Re: Abort, Retry, Cancel under windows

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From: Industrial Poet
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1991 18:49
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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

 
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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Industrial Poet)
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Subject: Re: Abort, Retry, Cancel under windows
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Date: 28 Jun 91 18:49:46 GMT
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