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Re: Critical Error: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> May 07, 2001
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On Mon, 07 May 2001, Brendon Sly wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm sure this has been asked before, I searched the Topica list archive 
> but couldn't find an answer .. maybe I missed it.
> 
> I get the 'Critical Error: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?' message when an 
> external program (in this case, UltraEdit) launches 'ex.exe' without 
> making it full screen. I can't find a way to make UE do full screen so I 
> can live with it.

I believe that's one of DOS's messages. UE is probably trying 
to read or write a file somewhere that doesn't exist : the A: drive, or 
D: or ?  My guess is it is trying to write a backup file or save the
editor preferences or status somewhere.
Abort / Retry / Ignore / Fail usually don't do what you ask  them to anyway,
so it doesn't matter much what you answer.

Regards,
Irv
 
> I've got two questions:
>  1) Can I safely ignore the message?  Hitting 'a' (Abort) doesn't seem to 
> cause any problems.
>  2) What does the error actually mean?
> 
> It doesn't matter what program I run (even something like '? {1,2,3}' ), 
> I always get the error at the end when launching from UE. If I run the 
> program from a full screen DOS window, no problems at all.
> 
> The OS is Win98, if that matters.
> 
> Thanks.