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echo: binkley
to: Henk-Jan Kreuger
from: Phil Roberts
date: 1998-12-23 23:37:28
subject: ALT-M bug

-=[ Quoting Henk-Jan Kreuger to Phil Roberts ]=-

 HK> Hello Phil.

 HK> Saturday, December 19 1998 01:57, Phil Roberts wrote to All:

 PR> I have the WinFOSSIL version of BT32 XR6 installed.  It does
 PR> something really odd when you do an ALT-M poll.  The "recent
 PR> activity" window gets stuck on the line where it dialed the
 PR> modem.  Hitting a down arrow unsticks it.

 HK> Not reproducable here, not in the Winfos and not in the ntcomm
 HK> version. I know there is a small thing in the keyboard function which
 HK> sometimes (very rare, but it can happen when you hit a strange sequence
 HK> of keys) makes bink seem to hang, you can see that when the two
 HK> 'moving' things in the upper left corner of your screen stop. It can be
 HK> solved with a keypress. I do not know exactly when it happens, because
 HK> it is not really reproducable and happens only very rare. I am still
 HK> searching for it.

Bink doesn't hang.  The "Recent Activity" display hangs until I hit a down
arrow, but Bink continues running without it.  I haven't seen the left-hand
"moving" things ever stop.

                                Phil

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