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Re: infinite-beep-mode

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From: Massimo Campostrini
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:43
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In article <9211160108.AA02300@iowa.YP.solsys> kburton@iowa.UUCP (Kevin Burton) writes:
   Brian> I get a very annoying problem with epoch once in a while.  I'm
   Brian> wondering if anyone else has seen this behavior.

   Brian> Every once in a while, I'll click on something in epoch and find that
   Brian> I've accidentally entered infinite-beep-mode.  The message area
   Brian> displays "marker does not point anywhere" and the keyboard beeps
   Brian> forever.  Epoch is hung, and so is the keyboard, and the Xserver, and
I have a Sparcstation 1 and I also see this behavior sometimes. Let me
know if you here of a patch.


I had the same problem (on a Sparcstation), but it disappeared 
just upgrading Epoch to version 4.2

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        Massimo Campostrini
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From: campo@sunthpi3.difi.unipi.it (Massimo Campostrini)
Subject: Re: infinite-beep-mode
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