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Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 00:51:30 -0500
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From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: EMACS and/or Windows 98 crash
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At 05:18 AM 2/13/99 +0000, you wrote:
>...GNU tools such as RCS...

What the he1l is RCS?

>...Internet Explorer...

Aha! There's the culprit. :-)

>Diagnosis:
>
>Combined VGA/DIB 386 enhanced mode display component attempted to
>access memory that does not exist.
>
>Module Name: vgafull.3gr
>Description: Combined VGA/DIB 386 enhanced mode display component
>Version: 4.10.1998
>Product: Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Operating System
>Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation
>
>Application Name: WINOA386.MOD
>Description: Non-Windows application component for 386 enhanced mode
>Version: 4.10.1998
>Product: Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Operating System
>Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation

Diagnosis: A Microsoft device driver screwed up. This is par for the course
on Windowz. It's probably pointless to complain to Microsoft, or to attempt
to understand why it happened other than Microsoft's liberal use of null
pointer dereference in all their major components.

>HIMEM
>EMM386
>DBLBUFF
>GUARD
>KEYB
>IFSHLP
>DOSKEY

What a lot of TSRs!


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