On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 17:51:52 +0000 (GMT), you wrote: >> 2. In the file>Display file GUI menu, if you try to display a file that is >> in use by another application -- or at least one particular application I >> use -- R crashes. > >That's hard to debug. Do you get any useful feedback from a Dr.Mingw >or other dump? My guess is that is a problem in msvcrt.dll, but I will >see if I can trigger it. What Windows version, BTW?
I think I know what's happening here. If the other application has opened the file in an exclusive mode (e.g. whatever mode MS Word uses when it opens a file), then rgui crashes. I'll fix this. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
