Borland C++ 4.5

[Andrew Neil Ramage]

The screen was corrupted - the install was a small window in the corner 
(ie, it took over the shell window), but when it tried to create a 
desktop icon (I think) the whole screen became a patchwork of colours.

Andrew

You can be the captain
I will draw the chart
Sailing into destiny
Closer to the heart

Closer to the Heart by Rush (A Farewell to Kings, 1977)

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wino at piments.com wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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> 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
>>
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