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From: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 6.0.2  and Word
Message-ID: <8739@claris.com>
Date: 9 Feb 89 14:26:42 GMT
References: <35727@bbn.COM> <1063@oswego.Oswego.EDU> <7780@netnews.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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In article <7780@netnews.upenn.edu> hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Josh Hodas) writes:
>In article <1063@oswego.Oswego.EDU> vermilye@oswego.oswego.edu.Oswego.EDU (Jon R. Vermilye) writes:
>>In article <35727@bbn.COM> oliveira@bbn.com (John Oliveira) writes:
>>>
>>>has anybody experience problems using microsoft word  with system 6.0.2,
>>>i've been getting a lot of system bombs just by saving a file or just by
>>>send it to print or even by just looking at the mac without doing anything
>>>it just bombs.
>>>is word incompatible with 6.0.2 system or is the system buggy?
...
>First of all, Word is well known as not the most well behaved program.  Since
>we know nothing about what inits John is running (which would complicate the
>question somewhat) there is little or nothing we can say as yet.
>
...
>Anyway, I'd say you need to send some more specifics about the hardware 
>and software environment before anyone can be of much help.
>

I, too, would have to know more.

For example, are you running that misbegotten excuse, MacroMaker, on your
system?  If you are, there is a high probability that something is screwy
there.  The behaviour you describe sounds an awful lot like the crashes I've
seen in Word, LSC, LSP, Turbo Pascal, MPW, and a lot of other products
when that insipid little INIT is running around.

Are you running any INITs that might be incompatible with 6.0.2, like early
versions of hierDA or Moire?  A lot of these INITs are compatible if you
have the current version -- they had to be upgraded for compatibility.

What version of Word are you running?

Are you running under Finder or MultiFinder?  If MultiFinder, what else is
running?

This predisposition to blame everything on virii amounts to nothing more
that hysteria and does not lead toward a solution to either problem.

Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
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Disclaimer:  Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!