Attempting to Expand a Help Dialog Box in PWB 1.0 May Hang

ID Number: Q62331

1.00 | 1.00

MS-DOS | OS/2

buglist1.00 fixlist1.10

Summary:

When one of the pull-down menus in the Programmer's WorkBench (PWB)

version 1.0 is selected (File, Edit, View, and so on) and then F1 is

chosen for help on that menu, a small help screen appears. If CTRL+F10

is chosen in an attempt to expand the window to full screen, the

machine will hang under DOS. If the machine doesn't hang, it may

require another invocation of CTRL+F10 to cause the problem.

Under OS/2, the machine may not hang, but the PWB's functionality will

be disrupted and attempts to free oneself may cause a GP-fault. It may

be possible to exit the PWB, but at the very least, the CURRENT.STS

file will be corrupted so that future entrances to PWB will result in

very odd window configurations.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem with the PWB version 1.0.

This problem was corrected in PWB version 1.1.

Additional reference words: 1.00