Date: Sun, 25 Apr 93 17:00:45 PDT
From: jwiegley AT cs DOT usc DOT edu (Jeffrey Wiegley)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: quick go32 problem (maybe) I'm having...


I just got version 1.09 of gcc and I'm experiencing an annoying
problem when running a program using go32. if I pass a filename to
go32 which does not exist then I get the error message that go32
couldn't open such a file and then one of two things happen...

a) I get the command line prompt back, or
b) I don't get the command line prompt back... ever.

the final result is always the same though, after this my machine
totally freezes.  even ctrl-alt-del will not reboot it.

summary: passing a non-existing filename to go32 to run causes a file
not found error and subsequent total lock-up.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? has anybody else had this problem
before?  My machine is a 386-40 if that helps. What should i do about
this?

- Jeff Wiegley, jwiegley AT scf DOT usc DOT edu