Am I right in assuming that the you-beaut OS/2 you-beaut protected
you-beaut mode etc is meant to actually stop one application (e.g. WinOS2)
from crashing all the other applications?

I have attempted to run an application from CDROM under OS/2 4.0, WinOS2
fullscreen.  The first time I went to File, Run and chose browse, and that
hung the whole computer.  The second time (after rebooting), I did the
exact same thing, but this time I got a chance to browse and select what I
wanted to run.  A whole lot of diamonds filled the screen, and then the
whole computer hung.

In the first case, it was possible that my path had truncated, and one of
the windows things was not visible.  The second time, it might be because I
just ran the executable directly, instead of running "setup"
first, ie I am quite happy for the application to NOT WORK. What I am not
happy about is my computer HANGING.

So, is OS/2's super protection (as opposed to Windows 3.1) actually meant
to stop these things happening, or is it my understanding that is faulty? 
BFN.  Paul.

P.S. Third time it worked fine, no difference (that I am aware of) between
the 2nd and 3rd runs.  Between the 1st and 2nd runs one change was that
there was no CDROM changes done, because for the 2nd run I rebooted with
the correct CDROM already in the machine.
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