#BCD5000 crash
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I have discovered that, under certain circumstances, our P90 will lose what has
just been typed under DOS so that I can't recall the line with the F3 key. I
wonder if the two situations are related?
Don
Don- Could be, don't really know. I havn't made the switch to the P-series
yet. Still living in 486 world. Sounds like somethings not quite right
though. Sorry I can't be of more help.
-Mark
All computers will lose the DOS command-line editing buffer in certain
situations. My theory is (perhaps Gus can say for sure) that if the app
program you're running is written in such a way as to require overwriting the
transient portion of COMMAND.COM in memory (so that it has to be reloaded upon
the app's completion) then you lose the buffer. For example, both XCOPY & (DOS)
EDIT (which is actually a QBASIC program) will cause DOS's command line buffer
to disappear. (This rule doesn't function if you've got DOSKEY loaded, as it
maintains it's own buffer.)
Dave
Good question. I don't know that one. I've been using 4DOS for several years
and it doesn't have that problem but your theory is perfectly possible.