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[Tony White]

I'm just trying out MFC Client 139 over pro-iv 4.6 1.07.
Every now and again the kernel prompt does not recognise that I have typed in a function name and keeps reprompting.
I have to kill the windows task to get out. Anybody seen this ? - I have to say that the official response from Pro-iv Support has not been very informative.

[Steve Jenkins]

This has happened with ye old GUI environment for quite some time. I've found this tends to occur if you interrupt a running function. When the command line box appears if you persist with entering the function eventually it will decide it's about time it started working and execute it.

I believe the Pro-iv response to this one is: Due to the Eastern winds blowing over the Sahara in August the scorpions found in that area bring little grains of sand to your PC which they use to fill up your keyboard buffer and because scorpions are not bugs this is not a problem. :-)

[Tony White]

Thanks for your replies folks. Good to know that this is an actual problem then, and not just me !

The platform by the way is an IBM RS6000 H70 running AIX 4.3 with Pro-iv 4.6 r107. The 139 client is on windows 95.

I have heard since, that you should be able to clear the mis-behaving kernel prompt's buffer by typing return several times, then retyping the function name.

Unfortunately this has not worked, and my office rings to the sound of frustrated developers crashing out of GUI sessions!

I'll probably be moving our live systems over to r200 soon, so hopefully this may solve it. (Or is r200 likely to unleash a pile more problems ?)

Rgds
Tony White