Hi Carl, I too have not encountered the misery you are seeking to avoid. I'm running Nota Bene 3.0 under VDosPlus (the 17 October 2017 build), without your U2 enhancements. All the best, James On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM Carl Distefano <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kari, > > I have not encountered this. This is perhaps because I have never > > truly put vDos+ XyWrite through the paces like you do. > > Harry, > > I don't believe I have ever seen that message or experienced that > > crash. > > Thank you both for the feedback. Be glad that you don't see this error, > especially as often as I do, which is VERY often. It's a pain. Admittedly, > I'm at the far end of the bell curve in the way that I use > vDosPlus-XyWrite. I'm constantly leveraging XyWrite/U2 commands by running > Windows executables in the background. vHandles.bat tells me that a single > operation like this can add 8 or 10 open handles to the count. At that > rate, I can hit the 500-handle ceiling pretty quickly, especially when I'm > editing intensely, which is when I can least afford to lose my work. > Fortunately, vHandles.bat solves this problem nicely. > > While I have you here, can I impose on you to try QUITS.PM? > I've updated it today (there were errors). It's part of the vhandles.zip > package (which I've updated), but I'm also attaching the latest version to > this message. If you run QUITS.PM unmodified, it saves all open files and > quits XyWrite. But try editing Save/Get 01, on line 26 of the program, by > inserting the Windows command that you use to start XyWrite. QUITS.PM > should then also restart XyWrite after quitting. The XPL is designed to > work with any version of Xy or NB for DOS, so it's fortuitous that -- if I > recall correctly, you, Harry, run XyWrite 4 while Kari usually runs NB 3 > for DOS. I'm eager to know if QUITS.PM works as advertised for each of > you. I find that it's a handy utility in its own right. > > -- > Carl Distefano > cld@xxxxxxxxxx > >