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Re: [ECS] WPDL WARNING Carl Keyes Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:10:25 PST

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Mark,

I've  been locking-up regularly after
a WPDL. The thing is I also do an ED
edit on the file right after. I've always
thought it was the ED that caused the
problem. I've run ED on files on 2 other
machines and they all lock-up if you
try to speak the file after the edit.
Hmmm....

carl

>From: Mark Gilmore <omnip@usit.net>
>Reply-To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
>To: "ecs-list@netbloc.com" <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
>Subject: [ECS] WPDL WARNING
>Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 07:44:30 -0800
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>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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