[pmmail-list] pmmail OS/2 crashes

[Walter F. Metcalf]

On Fri, 19 May 2006 15:30:32 +0200 (CEST), Reinhard Forster wrote:

>On Fri, 19 May 2006 12:58:22 +0100 (BST), Dave Saville wrote:
>
>> >Are you using XWorkplace? I suspect that "the system" (eCS + XWP +
>> >whatever) is becoming more and more unstable as one installes and
>> >de-installs applications. 
>> 
>> Yes I am. Not sure why it should get unstable though.
>
>Well ... I can't proof it, it's just a supicion. Sometimes there are a
>lot of SYS3171 entries in POPUPLOG.OS2 that seem to be generated by
>XWPDAEMN.EXE when it tries to do something with a DLL.
>
>IMHO software "wears out" in some way ...
>
>
>Ade
>
>Reinhard
>

It's an unhappy, but fairly common, phenomenon that adding or changing new
software in an OS "breaks" old software.  This is especially true with a twenty
year-old OS to which we don't have proper access.  :-(

Walter,

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