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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: LSPascal 2.0p1 problem  and earlier 2.0 too
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Date: 27 Feb 89 02:58:59 GMT
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In article <9095@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> strausd@romana.UUCP (Douglas E. Strauss) writes:
>When I go and stop a program from running using the interupt button, the mouse
>wil freeze up over half of the time.  Why?  Should I have some of the options

	There are any number of reasons as to why the mouse might freeze up;
two come readily to mind: 1) Your program may have run amok and smashed the
region of memory used by the mouse-handling interrupts. 2) Your higher-priority
interrupt may have bumped off the mouse handlers.

(Sorry for my vagueness; my knowledge of hardware is somewhat sketchy. :-)

	The best way to stop a program (in Lightspeed Pascal, at least) is
to use the spray can, which works when your programs are compiled with the
Debug option on.

		--Rich

Rich Siegel
Staff Software Developer
THINK Technologies Division, Symantec Corp.
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