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Article #377WinQVT 4.77 under Win 3.1
From: Heath Ian Hunnicutt
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 23:25
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 23:25
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The following are just my observations/opinions: 3.1 has drastically improved the reliability/robustness of WinQVT, including during the download procedure that the original poster mentioned. Based on the wide variety of crashing that I ahve heard reports of when people were downloading with WinQVT 4.77, and running Windows in Enhanced mode, I would guess that some pointer is the culprit. Either 3.1 thwarts the errant pointer, or (more likely) returns a NULL pointer as an error flag, where it did not before. Regardless, 3.1 is a much more stable program, and I have been able to explain in hindsight many of my UAEs under 3.0 by exercising all my applications and seeing when and where they do what. Example: I am using a CPU usage monitor, and after reading its "About" box 3 times, if I open any other application that uses the timer messages (e.g., Clock) I get a "CPUUSE caused a General Protection Fault in module CPUUSE at 0003:017E." If I run Dr. Watson, I even get stack dumps! (In drwatson.log, of course.) Now, I would never have guessed at this problem before, but now I know. Nifty. See ya, Heath -- Pert Plus is a technological breakthrough designed for today's active people to look great without a fuss. Pert Plus is a _complete shampoo plus conditioner in one bottle_! PERT PLUS REALLY WORKS! (My opinions are my own, not Caltech's, not even Procter & Gamble's)
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!heathh From: heathh@cco.caltech.edu (Heath Ian Hunnicutt) Subject: WinQVT 4.77 under Win 3.1 Message-ID: <1992Apr7.232500.29111@cco.caltech.edu> Sender: news@cco.caltech.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: bartman Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 23:25:00 GMT