Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!indri!polyslo!csun!solaria!ecphssrw@io.csun.edu From: ecphssrw@io.csun.edu (Stephen Walton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: wp crashing Message-ID: <705@solaria.csun.edu> Date: 9 May 89 20:34:51 GMT References: <8905081520.AA11220@jade.berkeley.edu> Sender: ecphssrw@solaria.csun.edu Reply-To: ecphssrw@io.csun.edu (Stephen Walton) Organization: California State Univ., Northridge Lines: 18 In-reply-to: RICK@QUCDNAST.BITNET In article <8905081520.AA11220@jade.berkeley.edu>, RICK@QUCDNAST writes: >In article <4389@alvin.mcnc.org>, raw@mcnc.org (Russell Williams) writes: > >>...after [WordPerfect's] first two revisions, it has >>never crashed on me. Never. > >Here's one way: Rick then describes a way to make your machine crash using a very obscure combination of reboots, SetFont's and WordPerfect's. Since SetFont is definitely *not* a supported part of the Amiga's OS, but a quick hack Dave Haynie put together which works _sometimes_, blaming WordPerfect because an interaction between it and SetFont crashes your system stretches things a bit. -- Stephen Walton, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Univ. Northridge RCKG01M@CALSTATE.BITNET ecphssrw@afws.csun.edu swalton@solar.stanford.edu ...!csun!afws.csun.edu!ecphssrw