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Subject: F-PC HANGS?
Message-ID: <63.UUL1.3#5129@willett.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 89 03:29:40 GMT
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 Date: 12-20-89 (09:14)              Number: 1682
   To: ALL                           Refer#: NONE
 From: ARCHIE WARNOCK                  Read: (N/A)
 Subj: F-PC HANGS?                   Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 I've been in the process of getting v3.5 of F-PC up and running on both
 my office and home machines.  No problem at the office (a PC's Limited
 286-12) but at home I seem to hang the machine from time to time.  I
 _know_ it's Forth, and shouldn't be surprised by the ability to kill a
 machine, but I'd like to know if anyone else has seen the problem.  I'm
 running an early genuine IBM-PC, to which I've added a V20 chip, an
 enhanced VGA display, two extra floppies and a 60 meg RLL drive.  There
 are a few device drivers loaded - one for the extra floppies, one for
 the EMS board, etc.  None of these _ought_ to cause a problem.

 When I run the installation program, all the files unpack successfully
 but the program hangs at the point where it's supposed to ask for the
 FPATH.  I get the instructions ("edit the path...") but no path is
 displayed and the machine is dead, dead, dead (Big Red Switch time).

 I also managed to hang the computer in the same way after manual
 installation by somehow trying to escape from one of the help nesting
 levels, but I'm not 100% sure what I did.

 Oh yes, I've _not_ replaced the kernel with OBK or any such thing (at
 least, not yet).  Might that fix the problem?  Does anyone know what the
 problem is?  Has anyone else seen it?
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