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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Thought this was interesting (OT)
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 16:07:45 -0400
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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Apropos of this, if you have access to a Windows system,
> try running the following simple program there. Make sure
> to save all important work first! It just prints out a
> string over and over again. It couldn't do anything bad,
> could it? Especially not on WinNT or WIn2K, right?
> Especially if you have no special privileges, right? :-)
>
> with text_io; use text_io;
> with ada.characters.latin_1; use ada.characters.latin_1;
> procedure crash is
> begin
>    loop
>      put("Hung up!" & HT & BS & BS & BS & BS & BS & BS);
>    end loop;
> end;
>

hmm...   All I get is some garbage followed by a

raised ADA.IO_EXCEPTIONS.DEVICE_ERROR : s-fileio.adb:987

which although is a rather strange error, it doesn't crash my Win2K system.
:)

-CRM