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From: tonyb@olivej.olivetti.com (Anthony M. Brich)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Unrecoverable Application Error message in Win3.0
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Date: 6 Jul 90 18:11:38 GMT
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In article <11494@netcom.UUCP> mojo@netcom.UUCP (Morris Jones) writes:
>In article <3449@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> retter@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Rob Retter) writes:
>>    What *exactly* does Unrecoverable Application Error mean?
>
>Rob, typically it means a protection fault or violation in the 386.  It
>happens if an application does something like attempting to write into
>the code segment, modifies a segment selector, writes outside of a valid
>segment, and so on.
>
>I've never seen it in one of the applications provided with Windows, so
>its hard to imagine what could be causing them all in your case, unless
>you have a TSR loaded doing something bizarre in interrupts.

	Hmmm.  I've seen them frequently, most lately with Word For
	Windows:  I tried to insert a table of contents in a short (15
	page) document, and Winword didn't like it, or WIndows didn't,
	or somthing didn't, because I got an Unrecoverable Application
	Error, and Winword terminated.  I learned from Microsoft that
	you MUST exit Windows and reboot your system in the event of
	this error.  Something to do with corrupted memory?  Anyway,
	that's one of several instances in which I've encountered an
	Unrecoverable Error.  (Another instance:  Terminal and my
	bosses ROM BIOS didn't like one another.  At least, that's
	what we think it was:  we changed the BIOS, and everything
	works fine now --- kind of.  Terminal is a little flaky.  He
	uses Crosstalk now.)  (Yet another:  I had a PC/TCP RLOGIN
	Window, several Excel spreadsheets, Winword, and several
	sessions of Write and the Cardfile open.  Tried to go back to
	the RLOGIN Window and ---- kaboom!  Up in smoke.  I don't
	think this version of PC/TCP is supported yet, so now big
	deal.)

	Tony Brich