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Re: Sending an interrupt to the frontend?

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• Subject: [mg127417] Re: Sending an interrupt to the frontend?
• From: Ralph Dratman <ralph.dratman at gmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:54:12 -0400 (EDT)
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James,

In your case I suggest you try reinstalling Mathematica. That might
help with the kinds of crashes you describe, which should never
happen.

Ralph


On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:02 AM, James Stein <mathgroup at stein.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 1:31 AM, David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>wrote:
>
>>
>> I am not sure it is always as simple as just blaming the user! I have
>> seen Mathematica hang when all I have done is start it up and look
>> something up in the help system (or try to).
>>
>
> I also have seen the bad  behavior Dave reports, in two guises:
> (a) launch mathematica, and it hangs (before, I think, showing the splash screen).
> (b) launch Mathematica, access help system, and it hangs while "formatting".
> (On a Macintosh, fwiw)