I just tried this on Windows 2000 with the new 3.2 vm and a 3.3 (4951) 
and it seems to work fine.

Bob Arning wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I saw some reference to this problem a year ago, but no resolution. Now a colleague is having the same problem...
>
>	Win32Shell new shellOpen: 'C:\'
>
>(or any use of FFI, actually) crashes Squeak (dump below). This is with the vm/dll/image from
>
>	ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.2/win/Squeak3.2-4917-win-full.zip
>
>on Windows 2000.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Cheers,
>Bob
>
>Wed Aug 07 12:55:56 2002
>
>Exception code: C0000005
>Exception addr: 0000A0AC
>Access violation (read access) at 0000A0AC
>EAX:00000005	EBX:00082CB0	ECX:00000008	EDX:00000004
>ESI:00000004	EDI:307C0420	EBP:00000000	ESP:0006FC34
>EIP:0000A0AC	EFL:00010207
>FP Control: FFFF037F
>FP Status:  FFFF4020
>FP Tag:     FFFFFFFF
>
>Current byte code: 194
>Primitive index: 120
>Stack dump follows:
>
>817051372 Win32Shell>shellOpen:
>817050896 UndefinedObject>DoIt
>817032172 Compiler>evaluate:in:to:notifying:ifFail:
>817032720 [] in ParagraphEditor>evaluateSelection
>817031952 BlockContext>on:do:
>817027640 ParagraphEditor>evaluateSelection
>817027548 ParagraphEditor>doIt
>817027824 [] in ParagraphEditor>doIt:
>817027456 Controller>terminateAndInitializeAround:
>817027272 ParagraphEditor>doIt:
>817026880 ParagraphEditor>dispatchOnCharacter:with:
>817026656 ParagraphEditor>readKeyboard
>817026564 TextMorphEditor>readKeyboard
>817021460 [] in TextMorph>keyStroke:
>817021368 TextMorph>handleInteraction:fromEvent:
>817021276 TextMorphForEditView>handleInteraction:fromEvent:
>817021132 TextMorph>keyStroke:
>817021040 TextMorphForEditView>keyStroke:
>817020856 TextMorph>handleKeystroke:
>817020764 KeyboardEvent>sentTo:
>817020672 Morph>handleEvent:
>817020580 Morph>handleFocusEvent:
>817020948 [] in HandMorph>sendFocusEvent:to:clear:
>817020488 PasteUpMorph>becomeActiveDuring:
>817020212 HandMorph>sendFocusEvent:to:clear:
>817020120 HandMorph>sendEvent:focus:clear:
>817019936 HandMorph>sendKeyboardEvent:
>817019804 HandMorph>handleEvent:
>817008168 HandMorph>processEvents
>817008260 [] in WorldState>doOneCycleNowFor:
>817008076 SequenceableCollection>do:
>817007724 WorldState>handsDo:
>817007632 WorldState>doOneCycleNowFor:
>817006000 WorldState>doOneCycleFor:
>817005908 PasteUpMorph>doOneCycle
>816931576 [] in Project class>spawnNewProcess
>816931760 [] in BlockContext>newProcess
>  
>

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