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Date:	Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:16:12 PST8
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: TRAP A IN COMMAND PROCESSOR

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"Dr. Jeffrey Race" wrote:

> My problematic eCS 1.1 install traps with the second and subsequent
> instances of a TYPE command at an OS/2 prompt.
>
> What does this suggest? Am I correct in assuming it is not h/w?
>

This sounds vaguely familiar, but I can't pin it down. It may have
been some
*other* (ordinarily innocuous) command, on the 2nd. repetition from a
command
prompt. It was definitely on some earlier version of my main system, a
mid-tower
desktop that has had all of its internal components changed 3 or 4
times over the
last 7 years. In my case, the result was an immediate hard crash that
rebooted the
whole system. I can't recall what this problem was by this point --
something to do
with the video subsystem would be a reasonable guess -- or what the fix
turned out
to be. This was quite awhile ago. There might be something in the
Help List Archives
about it, should they become fully available and searchable again.

When I've seen a problem of this type, the video driver is generally
involved somehow.
For example, OPERA 5.12 for OS/2, under eCS 1.0, had a fatal
interaction on my
present system with the Matrox 2.36 video driver. The screen would
suddenly chunk
into a gibberish of dayglo colored squares, and nothing but a hardware
Reset was
possible after that. This was reliable, repeatable, but left no
apparent Trap info. I
did not want to use a different video driver on this system, so I just
tossed OPERA.

Your problem does not lend itself to such an easy solution. If it does
turn out to be
something in your version of SNAP SE, I have saved several of the
earlier versions,
and its Scitech predecessors.

Jordan

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