Weird things happen occasionally.
A restart of the computer is usually in order.
Running a memory tester on that computer wouldn't hurt, just in case it is 
flaky in that area.

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Tellef
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 9:05 AM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Strange DOS behavior

This is not a problem -- it was resolved by simply starting the RBase session.  
But I'm curious if anyone can think of an explanation of why this happened.  
The client sent me a print-screen, otherwise I wouldn't believe it...

As mentioned in the subject, they're running DOS (most of the app is in 
windows, one module still in DOS).  This happened on just one workstation 
running a common program, all other workstations ran the same program and 
didn't show the behavior.

The program has several user prompts and a form.  Behind the user prompts and 
forms, you can see program code, as if a 'SET ECHO ON' command was run.  It 
wasn't in trace mode because they didn't have to press any keys to advance thru 
the code.  I did a search of all program code and custom eeps, and not a single 
instance of an "echo" command.   Of course, if there was an "echo" in a program 
then all workstations would have had the issue....

So other than an Echo, is there anything workstation-specific that would cause 
all the program code to display in the background?  Any other RBase command I 
can search for?   Or was this the result of something happening outside RBase?  
 Hasn't happened before, nor since....

Puzzle of the day!

Karen


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