Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/05/00:35:13
On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, Roger Ivie wrote:
> As I mentioned earlier, I recently installed OpenDOS on my friend's odd
> Gateway machine. Yesterday, while playing Freecell he got a message that
> an application had violated system integrity and needed to be rebooted. When
> he rebooted, all of the icons were gone.
>
> Looking around, I see all of the .GRP files are now zero length with a
> date and time stamp of about the time Freecell exploded.
>
> I haven't the foggiest what's going on yet, nor how I am going to fix it.
> However, since the machine never did this with MS-DOS, OpenDOS is the leading
> suspect...
That'll teach him for running programs that "draw pretty
pictures" that do direct screen writes!!! :o)
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