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From: lonetto@phri.UUCP (Michael Lonetto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A Few Good Rumors... (NeWS on Mac)
Message-ID: <3165@phri.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 88 18:13:53 GMT
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Reply-To: lonetto@phri.UUCP (Michael Lonetto)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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Keywords: A/UX Unix FullWriter


PS: Doesn't anyone but me think that Word 3.01 is *still* flaky? My
    favourite is its occasional tendency to crash if you customize the
    menus - you then can't start Word until you delete its settings file
    from your system folder. Don't tell me it works for you - *most* of
    its bugs are non-deterministic. I think they clear random bits in
    their idle routine just to keep the users hopping :-) (or is that 
    hoping? hyping? ...)

  Radford Neal

I have noticed that almost everytime something goes wrong under multifinder
one of two programs has been, or is, running:

Microsoft Word 3.01

or

NCSA Telnet 2.1

The combination is especially deadly.  These two are especially sneaky in that
they hardly ever crash while running, but lead to cursor freezing and other odd
behavior in otherwise well behaved programs.  The worst example is:

Run Telnet for a while, log out, quit Telnet, start Word, do a few things,
freeze up.

No fun at all.  I can hardly wait till things start REALLY working under
Multifinder.
-- 
Michael Lonetto    UUCP:(allegra!phri!lonetto) 
Dept of Applied Genetics
Public Health Research Institute, 455 1st Ave, NY, NY 10016