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From: emp@ut-emx.UUCP (naDev~tlhIngan~putulu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: MS Qbasic Fatal Crash Warning
Message-ID: <1505@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 88 18:55:01 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Lines: 17
Keywords: mouse, optical driver conflicts

...on a local BBS, someone posted a warning concerning MIcrosoft's Quick
Basic. Apparantly MSQB has some sort of problem when it's being run on a
system using an optical mouse. The problem occurs when a compile is being
done on a program, and the mouse is moved in any way. This, for some reason,
causes the compiler to link into QB.EXE and corrupt it, thus rendering it
unusable.

...Would anyone from Microsoft care to comment on this? We're a little
concerned about this down here because the person who posted this is not
of a reputable status, and there is some suspicion that this is some sort
of a hoax. Then again, none of us who have QB have an Optimouse either,
so we can't test this to be certain.


							OM


Discalmer: ok, so if this is a hoax, I have this Apple IV for sale...