I didn't see Dr. Watson, but I did see a bunch of error messages before
MapInfo finally killed itself and disappeared. More annoying was the fact
that Expolorer wouldn't work any more and I had to reboot. (I'm running MI
5.0, and Explorer 4.0)
Malcolm Geast
Atmospheric Science Division
Atmospheric Environment Branch
Environment Canada - Ontario Region
4905 Dufferin Street
Downsview, Ontario
M3H 5T4.
Phone (416) 739-4259
Fax (416) 739-4721
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> ----------
> From: Bill Thoen[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: August 19, 1999 10:18 AM
> To: Antony Burnett
> Cc: MapInfo-L
> Subject: Re: MI: wanna crash MapInfo?
>
> Naw... it must just not like the way you stroke the escape key...
> It doesn't crash ver 5.5 on my machine (running Win95). (Well, in
> truth, I did get it to cough up its socks on th esecond try, but
> I wasn't able to repeat it ever again)
>
> - Bill Thoen
>
> Antony Burnett wrote:
> >
> > Ever gone to make a layer editable in the Layer Control, but then
> changed
> > your mind?
> >
> > Save your work before conducting this failsafe method of crashing
> MapInfo:
> >
> > * Bring up the Layer Control (Ctrl-L)
> > * Hold down the left mouse button over any layer name
> > * Hit the esc key whilst still holding down the mouse key
> >
> > Watch Dr Watson appear. I'd like to say you only do this once, but
> > unfortunately that isn't the case.
> >
> > Ant Burnett
> > Sydney Australia
> >
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