Re: Command window hangs after minutes

From: David Candy (.)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:25:52 +1100

I wasn't able to get any program like anakey to work reliabily on 9x (except doskey but that didn't do what I needed). I went through a lot, but all would eventually hang. Though all this was on one production machine (where command line completion was needed like cmd). 

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"Paul R. Sadowski [MVP]" <sadowski@mvps.org> wrote in message news:ul8lmWG%23EHA.2984@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hello, Al:
> On   Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:40:33 -0700: you wrote...
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> ADM>
> ADM> I have never heard of the problem in any O/S. If you are having a
> ADM> problem running CMD.EXE in Windows 98, you should be aware that the
> ADM> two are not compatible.
> 
> I had a similar sounding problem way back in the W9x series. If I clicked on 
> the close button the DOS prompt would hang. Haven't seen it in any of the 
> NT+ based OS'es. I always assumed it was some driver or something, perhaps 
> Anarkey which I used back then, causing it. Never fixed it, just moved on.
> 
> Regards, Paul R. Sadowski [MVP]. 
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