Re: xydos4 screen freeze

[Judith Davidsen jdavidsen@xxxxxxxx]

Leslie Bialler wrote:
>
> Judith,
>
> Whenever xydos freezes in Windows, it's almost always a keyboard-stick
> issue: i.e., a ctrl character doesn't get unreleased and you think
> you're pressing c, but XyWrite thinks you're pressing shift-c. The way
> around this, and this goes all the way back to Tyson's book, is to
> rename the keyboard files so that CTRL, say, becomes KTRL, SHIFT becomes
> SHIFF, and ALT becomes ALTT.
>
> Now, how to escape. Easy. The three-fingered salute. In Windows,
> ctrl-alt-delete brings up the task manager menu. Scroll through it until
> you find editor.exe and tell the program to cease operations. The other
> option is shut down. You don't want to do that 'cause the machine will
> reboot, which probably isn't necessary.
>
> When you tell editor.exe to cease and desist, some incomprehensible
> Windows message blather will come up and you must confirm that you
> indeed want editor.exe to stop. Tell it again. You will be back at your
> desktop. All should be well.
>
> Judith Davidsen wrote:
>
> > My screen in xydos4.018 (win98) just froze. Can't toggle
> > between cmline and text, no cursor available, mouse and
> >  and  accomplish nothing.
> >
> > I was using ch on the cmline, hit  with no result,
> > hit  with no result, realized the screen was frozen.
> > I was using back rather than forward slashes as separators,
> > but would that matter?
> >
> > This is the second time xy froze on me in recent weeks.
> > Can't remember what I was doing the first time it happened.
> >
> > Everything else--web, email, excel--is working.
> >
> > 1. is there some trick to get out of this or do I have to
> > reboot?
> >
> > 2. any idea what might have caused it?
> >
> > thanks for any ideas
> >
> > Judith Davidsen
>
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