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Re: dos() crash

To: Nick Locantore <nick@waratah.com>
Subject: Re: dos() crash
From: Frank E Harrell Jr <fharrell@virginia.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 13:41:55 -0400
Cc: s-news@lists.biostat.wustl.edu
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Organization: University of Virginia
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On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:35:44 -0400
Nick Locantore <nick@waratah.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>       Perhaps Sam is correct in his suspicion?
>       I am using S-PLUS 6.0 release 2 as well, and I get dos("dir") to
> return without incident.  I am running WinNT Service Pack 6.
> 
> Nick Locantore
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Buttrey, Samuel [mailto:sebuttre@nps.navy.mil]
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 11:44 AM
> To: s-news@lists.biostat.wustl.edu
> Subject: Re: [S] dos() crash
> 
> 
> I don't have this problem with the exact same version of S-Plus. However,
> I'm running Windows 2000, 5.00.2195 service pack 2. Could this be the
> difference?
> 
> Sam Buttrey
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurent Prevot [mailto:lprevot@avignon.inra.fr]
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 1:58 AM
> To: s-news@lists.biostat.wustl.edu
> Subject: [S] dos() crash
> 
> 
> 
> Under Splus6 recently installed (Professional Edition Version 6.0.3
> Release 2 for Microsoft Windows : 2001 / Windows98 SE), the dos()
> systematically crashes my computer when called with output.to.S=T, even
> with a simple command like "dir"
>

To clarify, we ran up against this problem with Windows 98 Second Edition 
running S-Plus 6.1.  Windows 2000 seems to work.  -Frank
-- 
Frank E Harrell Jr              Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics
Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences
U. Virginia School of Medicine  http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat


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