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[S] Summary: S-Plus Win 2000 crashes on exit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Prager)
Fri Aug 20 15:07:36 1999
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:00:07 -0400
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From: Michael Prager <Mike.Prager@noaa.gov>
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Recently, I wrote:
>> I am having a persistent problem with S-Plus 2000 Professional crashing on
exit [under Windows NT]. [...] When I exit after using S-Plus for a while,
it crashes and a "Dr. Watson" window comes up. The bad part of this is
that preferences [...] changed during the session are lost. <<
Responses:
Marcelo A. Ferreira Gomes reported that a colleague has had similar
problems with several versions of S-Plus under Windows 95.
Stephen J. Smith reported that he is using S-Plus 2000 without problems.
Two replies from MathSoft stated that the problem was "that one of the
files in your _Prefs directory is corrupt" and that I should either delete
that directory or backup and delete the files there, one by one, to locate
the faulty file.
In summary, the problem hasn't been resolved yet. I trust that MathSoft
can locate the cause of the corruption and if it's in S-Plus (the only
program that accesses the _Prefs directory), fix it.
If anyone else experiences such crashes, please contact MathSoft to alert
them to it. With any luck, that will speed a cure.
My thanks to all who responded.
--
Michael Prager <Mike.Prager@noaa.gov>
NOAA Beaufort Laboratory
Beaufort, North Carolina 28516
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