From: Robert Hoehne <Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT TU-Chemnitz DOT DE>
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Subject: Re: a few questions...
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 10:26:50 +0200
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David Jenkins wrote:
> 
> I only ever run my stuff from Win95, I've recently discovered that Win95
> handles certain errors better than Dos does. See below about the game

Oh please do say such statements. The better wording would be

Win95 silently ignores fatal errors better than DOS to let you
think that Win95 has less bugs than DOS.

To illustrate this simply run the following program
and let me know if you think that it is OK to ignore
such an fatal error:

#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
  char *s=NULL;
  strcpy(s, "I'm writing now to a NULL pointer\n");
  return 0;
}

Robert
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