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WinQVT 4.77 under Win 3.1

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From: Heath Ian Hunnicutt
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


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