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Subject: wp crashing
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Date: 8 May 89 16:20:00 GMT
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In article <4389@alvin.mcnc.org>, raw@mcnc.org (Russell Williams) writes:

>I can edit huge
>documents with little loss of speed, and after the first two revisions, it has
>never crashed on me.  Never.

Here's one way:
 - go into preferences, select interlace. save. reboot.
 - on reboot, change font to an 11-point font, ie: setfont pearl 11
 - run WP

now you should see that any characters typed to WP will be incomplete:
only the top (8 scan lines? something like that...) of each character
will be displayed. this makes WP unusable. SO....

 - set font back to an 8 point font
 - run WP
 - set font to 11 point font (so that the other windows in the system
   will be readable :-)
this last action brings an instant visit from the guru about half of the
time on my system. part of the time it will crash, make it part way
through a reboot, then crash again: frequently back to kickstart
(destroying RAD: but not vd0: as it goes). i can't seem to find any common
denominator among the various types of crashes.

   i could, i suppose, either not use interlace (boo) or put up with an
8-point font. but my eyesight is bad, and that's _just_ a bit too small
to read easily. pearl 11 in interlace is *perfect*. sigh.

the summary? WP crashes. :-)

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