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Re: [ECS] WPDL WARNING Kevin Keast Wed, 31 Mar 1999 05:32:31 -0800

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Mark,



No problems, but I use it frequently to get my weather informaton.  Works like a charm
here.

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Kevin, d8)
libertyc@prodigy.net
keastk@ele.uri.edu



On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 07:44:30   Mark Gilmore wrote:
>I have found that the use of WPDL can trigger a Win
>"LOCKUP" sometime after it's use (0-90 minutes later).
>If I press ctrl-alt-del, I get the following after some 5 seconds:
>	"THIS SYSTEM IS BUSY WAITING FOR THE CLOSE DIALOG BOX TO BE DISPLAYED"
>If I press ctrl-alt-del again, I get:
>	"THE SYSTEM IS EITHER BUSY OR HAS BECOME UNSTABLE"
>A hard reboot is required to recover.
>
>Has anyone else experienced similar problems with WPDL ?
>
>If so, we may need to use POSTIE to download webpages for us.
>In WPDL, I'm calling high-level MS functions that I have little
>control over (this would NOT be something that I could fix).
>
>Thanks.
>-- 
>Mark Gilmore
>Omnipotence (ECS Home Automation Software)
>omnip@usit.net
>http://www.usit.com/omnip
>


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