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From: moku@sphinx.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Recovering Word 3.0 files
Message-ID: <1830@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: Tue, 26-May-87 10:41:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: sphinx.1830
Posted: Tue May 26 10:41:36 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 27-May-87 03:23:52 EDT
References: <365@sdics.ucsd.EDU> <1825@sphinx.uchicago.edu> <19647@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: moku@sphinx.UUCP (Mark Francillon)
Organization: U Chicago Computation Center
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Keywords: Microsoft Word 3.0 crashes temp files

In article <19647@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>
>>Special Memorial Day bomb-o'-the-day: open a file and split the screen 
>>(either a regular split screen or a footnote window will do); put the
>>insertion point in the upper pane and click in the lower pane within
>>an eighth of an inch or so of the bottom of the window.  Cherry bomb =02
>>every time.  Footnoters beware.
>
>I tried it on my machine.  It doesn't fail.  Again, try zapping "word
>
>Which just goes to show -- before you go blaming a program, try to find out
>if it is really the program that does it.  Try it on the distribution
>floppies, for instance -- with all the neat toys folks put in the System
>file/folder, there are lots of ways to screw up a system that you might not
>even be aware of.  Just because Word has bugs doesn't mean that ll of the
>bugs in a Mac are in Word.  Before you start passing blame, do your homework.
>
I agree in principle as to carelessly made charges.  We all know that
reputations are more easily damaged than repaired.  I wouldn't have said
anything if I hadn't been able to replicate the bomb on several different
machines, differently configured --including time after time in front of a
dismayed Microsoft rep at a MacFest here a couple of weeks ago.

Try getting the tip of the arrowhead as close to the bottom of the lower pane
as possible.  Of course this makes the whole procedure sound contrived, but
I assure you that if you spend any amount of time working with footnotes,
this one will bite with regularity  --unless you can drill it into your head
not to try jumping to the bottom line of the footnote window.

Mark Francillon
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Chicago
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