Re: xydos4 screen freeze

[Judith Davidsen jdavidsen@xxxxxxxx]

Whoops. Sorry. Kindly ignore.

Judith Davidsen wrote:
>
> 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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