On (23 Oct 97) Michael Gray wrote to All...
 MG> I'm taking a class in Intro to C++ and bought an academic priced
 MG> version of Visual C++ (v5 Professional Edition, I think) which had a
 MG> copy of Win NT 4.0 included (not a bad deal for $110.)  I get a lot
 MG> (couple of times a week) of 'Blue screen of death' core dumps in VC++
 MG> (mostly, though
 MG> I've gotten them in other apps.)  I've upgraded NT to Service Pack 3,
 MG> but they've continued.  I've looked on Microsoft's site searching for
 MG> upgrades to VC++ with no results, but it wasn't an exhaustive search
 MG> since I was using Netscape under OS/2 at the time (it *really* didn't
 MG> like MS's Java code.)  What is the current service level for VC++ and
 MG> how do I get my software upgraded to it?
The current version is service pack 2.  I'd advise picking up the
service pack on CD-ROM if you can - they charge US $14.95 for the
CD-ROM, but the service pack is 70 megabytes (no that's NOT a typo) so
it takes a LONG time to download.
 MG> Is the core dump screen only, or is it written to disk for debugging
 MG> purposes?  And how do I tell which application (or thread or whatever)
 MG> is truly causing the dump?
Once you have things working reasonably well, you can open the core dump
in the debugger and use that to figure out what's going on.
    Later,
    Jerry.
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