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From: djo7613@hardy.u.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor)
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Subject: explosiv misbehaving??
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Date: 14 Jan 91 21:05:15 GMT
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We use the screen-saver "explosiv" on several of our machines, usually run as 
a TSR out of autoexec.bat.  I enjoy the displays, but we believe it may be
responsible for some oddball breakdowns lately.  Since explosiv (as I recall)
was posted here Once Upon A Time, I'd like to find out if others have exper-
ienced similar problems.

1) Our machines are linked to each other and share printers using LANtastic.
After resuming a session that times into explosiv's display, we need to Retry
the network connection the next time we want to print.  Our Ethernet cards are
all using IRQ=5; I don't know if explosiv is the culprit, but there is some
circumstantial evidence relating to when the problems seem to happen.

2) If explosiv comes on during a PC Shell session (PC Tools DOS Shell), 
certain areas of the screen, once restored, have high-order bits changed so
that they blink. Entering and exiting one of the menus restores order.

3) explosiv has locked up a few R:Base 5 sessions.  I have little info on
this problem at this point.

I hope I'm wrong, because I like the program.  Has anyone else had similar
symptoms?  A pointer to any previous discussion would be appreciated; our
machine doesn't have any such articles in its archives right now.  Thanks!!

"Moby" Dick O'Connor                         djo7613@u.washington.edu 
Washington Department of Fisheries           *I brake for salmonids* 
"Moby" Dick O'Connor                         djo7613@u.washington.edu 
Washington Department of Fisheries           *I brake for salmonids*