Win98 2.0b: crash on Help

[Fredrik Lundh]

Kirby Urner wrote:
> In 2.0b IDLE 0.6 under Win98, when I select Help | Python Documentation,
> I get an amazingly serious crash.  A couple blue screens of death 
> followed by a switch into some undefined video mode. Have to reboot.
> This is on an AMD K2 400, 128RAM, Voodoo3 graphics.

from the 2.0 download page (in ludicrously small print at the bottom
of the page):

    Incompatibility warning: Norton Antivirus 2000 can cause blue
    screen crashes on Windows 98 when a function in the os.popen*()
    family is invoked. To prevent this problem, disable Norton Antivirus
    when using Python. (Confirmed on Windows 98 Second Edition with
    Norton Antivirus version 6.10.20. The same Norton Antivirus version
    doesn't have this problem on Windows 2000. Norton Antivirus
    version 5 on Windows 98SE doesn't have this problem either.) 

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