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Subject: wp crashing (again)
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Date: 10 May 89 21:30:00 GMT
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In  <705@solaria.csun.edu>, ecphssrw@io.csun.edu (Stephen Walton) says:

>Rick then describes a way to make your machine crash using a very
>obscure combination of reboots, SetFont's and WordPerfect's.

It's not obscure. If you use an interlaced workbench (I do; I bought a
long persistence monitor so I could.) and if you, as a result, modify
the system font to topaz 11 or pearl 11 (one of the reasons topaz 11
appeared in fonts: when 1.2 appeared, I think), then you will encounter
either (a) an unusable WordPerfect or (b) a system crash if you decide
to try and deal with (a). I was _not_ looking for wierd ways to crash
the program; I was just trying to _use_ WP without completely changing
my work environment.

>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.

I know that SetFont ain't 'official'. But I disagree with your
conclusion: the _only_ program I've _ever_ found that has a wierd
interaction with SetFont is, um, er, WordPerfect. I am more ready to
believe that WP did something dumb than I am to believe that _everyone_
else got lucky. :-)

>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

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