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From: bradb@cs.toronto.edu (Brad Brown)
Subject: Re: Quattro Pro
Message-ID: <89Dec29.120622est.2641@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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Date: 29 Dec 89 17:06:34 GMT
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aburt@isis.UUCP (Andrew Burt) writes:

>Has anyone had any problems with Quattro Pro... such as it completely not
>working?

>We bought it for my father-in-law, installed it, and after no longer than
>five minutes it hangs (90% of the time) or crashes (with stack trace
>or other nasty stack overrun-like messages).  You can do the most harmless
>things... just lean on an arrow key and it will hang after a short while.
>It hung once while quitting the program.  Etc.  (And this isn't UBD, trust
>me, I should think I know what I'm doing by now.)

Are you using DOS 3.3?  I don't have Quatro Pro yet, but I have Reflex 2.0,
which also uses the VROOM (VROOOM?) memory management scheme.  I found that
if I didn't add "stacks=0,0" to my CONFIG.SYS file, Reflex would crash while
translating an old database to the new format.  It probably would have crashed
in other places too -- I never tried.
 
The worst thing is this seems to be guru knowledge -- it's not listed anywhere
in the Borland manuals, and I only tried it on a hunch.  I don't know whether
this will work for you -- my machine is a kludge of different parts I've
collected over the years, so it could be just me...

					(-:  Brad Brown  :-)
					bradb@ai.utoronto.ca