Borland C++ 4.5

[wino at piments.com]

I had a similar situation installing Dragon Nat. Speaking with  
installshield. I thought the thing was hanging and infact it was popping  
up a modal dlg with a yes/no or whatever and wine was failing to bring it  
to the front.

If the BC installer is hogging the whole screen and you are getting a  
similar disfunction in wine you may think it is hung when it is not.

There is a line in .wine/config that allows you to catch badly behaved  
installers in 600x800 window so that you can still access the rest of the  
system.

It's fairly unlikely that an installer will really cripple your kernel to  
the point where you have to power-off.

HTH



On Tue, 31 May 2005 21:53:19 +0200, Kuba Ober <kuba at mareimbrium.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 31 May 2005 11:29, Andrew Neil Ramage wrote:
>> This was a BC++ 4.5 CD I bought years ago.  The system I use is SusE 9.2
>> Desktop (hoping to upgrade to Pro soon) and the latest wine cvs.  There
>> was no debugging information available as the system hung, so I could
>> not access the shell window I started the install from.
>
> Did you try ssh'ing into the system and executing 'killall X' as root?  
> The
> mere fact that X doesn't react to keystrokes doesn't necessarily mean  
> that
> the system is hanging.
>
> Cheers, Kuba
>
>