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From: andreatta@mail.chem.sc.edu (Dan Andreatta)
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Subject: Re: Thought this was interesting (OT)
Date: 28 Aug 2002 08:05:43 -0700
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"AG" <ang@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message news:<_L0b9.434$Y3.52721@news.xtra.co.nz>...
> "AG" <ang@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message
> news:lC0b9.432$Y3.49485@news.xtra.co.nz...
> >
> > "Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
> > news:wccznv8ynva.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com...
> > > "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net> writes:
> > >
> > > > My tests indicate that Mr. Rosen's program does seem to crash NT 4.0.
> > >
> > > With what symptom?  Any idea why?  (Just curious.)
> >
> > Just tried it on W2Kpro (Athlon 1800+, 1Gb of memory
> > just in case it matters). Crashed it cold (Using latest free
> > Gnat version).
> 
> Having read the other postings to the group it seems like
> it's a wide-spread phenomena. Now I'm really interested as
> to why?
> 
> After all, someone did come up with that construct, any
> comment about how come and where does it come from?

I do not know the details, but it was (is?) a well known bug in the
console subsystem of NT (or at least that is what I read about it).

Dan