From: fprintf AT iname DOT com (Stuart Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Weird RHIDE problem found - /* at end of comments causes program exit?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:56:16 GMT
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Well I tried to duplicate the problem last night without any luck.
Must've been some wierd combination of keystrokes, the alignment of
the stars and this crappy OS.  :-)  (I threw that in there for all the
LINUX afficianadoes).

Stuart

On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:56:45 GMT, fprintf AT iname DOT com (Stuart Hall) so
kindly spent valuable time writing:

>I found a weird problem yesterday that I hadn't found before.  I made
>an error when entering comment into my program, like this:
>
>/* begin program description /*
>
>Well, the last comment identifier should be */ as we all know.  But
>when I did it the /* way and hit enter to get to a newline RHIDE
>exited without saving my program.  Weird.  Any ideas?  I have made
>this mistake before and I haven't gotten these results.
>
>The only thing remotely different about last night's computing
>environment and all others is that I had run Norton DOS previously,
>but rebooted the system.
>
>Well, onward and upward.  I'll try to see if it does the same thing
>tonight.
>
>Stuart
>
>
>- ratboy
>(don't be surprised if you email me and the response
>comes back from somewhere else - iname.com is just a 
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- ratboy
(don't be surprised if you email me and the response
comes back from somewhere else - iname.com is just a 
forwarding service)