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echo: points
to: AUGUST ABOLINS
from: MARTIN FOSTER
date: 2020-04-24 12:09:00
subject: winpoint: waiting for opt

Hello August!

*** Thursday 23.04.20 at 23:58, August Abolins wrote to All:

 AA> I just ran into a new situation with Winpoint.

Uh-oh

 AA> I fired it up and kinckstarted the handy nodelist viewer via 

 AA> When I started to enter the particulars for my search, the program kicked
 AA> into "Waiting for Optimization to complete.." and bogged down my whole XP
 AA> pc environment.  Even Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up the Task Manager was not
 AA> responding as soon as I hoped it would.  But after a few more attempts of
 AA> C-A-D, I was able to kill the WinPointII.exe process.

Yikes!! :-((

 AA> But.. what did I just witness with the "Waiting..." ?

I don't know because I've always had WinPoint's messagebase optimization  
feature disabled, sorry.

Regards,
Martin

--- OpenXP 5.0.43
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