[Info-vax] Unexpected error using ZIP for OpenVMS

[AEF]

On Dec 28 2011, 9:04 pm, AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Dec 28, 1:30 am, Steven Schweda <sms.antin... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
[...]
>
> OK, Ken. We simply have different views. I think part of the problem
(should be Steve)
> may be the software I use every day. Outlook 2010, Windows Search in
> any of it's programs. Lots of headaches every day, every hour, all the
> time, due to errors of every kind. I recently upgraded Confluence from
> 2.9.2 to 3.5.7. Lots of problems, but it's running great now in
> production. Now I'm working on JIRA 3.13.1 to 4.4.4. Lots of problems,
> but I got the hard part done. Now it's just getting the easy details
> and such into a procedure. MySQL was partly to blame in both cases!
> Using Ctrl-F in Firefox fails in certain contexts for no discernable
> reason (and now FF is telling me I misspelled discernable!). Maybe
> it's time to try Chrome or Opera. And Safari doesn't even have that
> functionality!
>
> OKAY? It's just gotten to the point that if 20 minutes in my workday
> goes by without an error or crash, I'm simply amazed. You, on the
> other hand, must be living in a completely different software
> environment. Perhaps you are lucky enough to work solely in an Alpha/
> VMS world. Or we just have different points of view.
>
> OK.
>
> AEF

Steve!

I really blew it this time! There is a bug in IE8 wherein if I press
Alt+Spacebar to get the System Menu, it hangs. So I tried killing that
window with Task Manager (TM), clicked "End Session", tried to move
the TM out off of the End Session box to see what happened, and got a
blank white area (a sure sign of trouble!) and my entire Windows
session hung! And I'm working from home today over VPN with RDC. Nice.
Well, I tried killing iexplore.exe from Task Manager (which is the
only thing still working) and lucked out. I don't have to reboot from
home, now!

You see now why there are no "unexpected errors" for me. A continual
stream of errors. Ah, that's life.

AEF