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echo: os2prog
to: Jonathan de Boyne Pollar
from: Paul Marchildon
date: 1994-07-23 23:03:04
subject: bcos2 1.5 comments

JP>   > Well, if its any consolation to you, I have a number of bug problems.
JP>   > One is that if I choose index from the help menu the program crashes.
JP> 
JP>   I thought that too, but it isn't so.  If you wait for five minutes
JP>   (sic!) it comes back to life again.  BC++OS2 goes away for a while to
JP>   scan all of the INFs in your HELP path, and takes the message queue
JP>   away with it, unfortunately.
JP> 
JP>   Me ?  I use KwikINF ...

Yeah, thanks I found that out too. I tried the index again, one of my
children needed my attention, so I was away for 5 to 10 minutes. When I
came back, voila! Using Alt+Esc causes OS/2 to intervene and close the
offensive program that was hogging the resources.

They must have used some junior programmer on this one.

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