tjfs@tadtec.uucp (Tim Steele) (10/26/89)
I've had problems with Word 4.0 crashing under MultiFinder on a 2 MB Mac SE. The Microsoft helpline react incredulously with "There are no bugs in Word 4.0" (how do they KNOW??!?) Anyone else seen this? I'm not totally naive, and have made sure I have a pukka 6.0.3 system. Tim -- tjfs@tadtec.uucp ..!uunet!mcvax!ukc!tadtec!tjfs Tadpole Technology plc, Titan House, Castle Park, CAMBRIDGE, CB3 0AY, UK Phone: +44-223-461000 Fax: +44-223-460727 Telex: TADTEC G
chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (10/26/89)
>I've had problems with Word 4.0 crashing under MultiFinder on a 2 MB >Mac SE. The Microsoft helpline react incredulously with "There are no >bugs in Word 4.0" (how do they KNOW??!?) Well, I beta tested Word 4 on a 2Meg Mac under multifinder. Until I upgraded to a Mac2, I was using it a couple of hours a number, all under Multifinder. I use it on a daily basis here on a 4 Meg Mac SE under multifinder. It's never crashed in any of those configurations. (I could, for that matter, find a couple of hundred machines here at Apple that meet that configuration where it works fine...). Which leads me to believe that there's something funky about your configuration or machine -- perhaps multifinder is corrupted? Or the Word binary? Or flakey ram? Or etc? -- Chuq Von Rospach <+> Editor,OtherRealms <+> Member SFWA/ASFA chuq@apple.com <+> CI$: 73317,635 <+> [This is myself speaking] Trust Mama Nature to remind us just how important things like sci.aquaria's name really is in the scheme of things.
jdm@boulder.Colorado.EDU (James D. Meiss) (10/27/89)
In article <TJFS.89Oct26095508@tadtec.uucp> tjfs@tadtec.uucp (Tim Steele) writes: >... The Microsoft helpline react incredulously with "There are no >bugs in Word 4.0" (how do they KNOW??!?) This is ridiculous. There is a documented bug that has bitten me repeatedly: copy a large picture from word into the clipboard. Word messes up the (so I was told) 128th byte. As an example do this with an equation created by expressionist. Often expressionist will choke on the mangled picture and crash. This bug makes Word 4.0 pretty difficult for me to use, being a Mathematician/Physicist! I believe there are several other bugs. For example type at the end of a paragraph, just before a paragraph with a different style, say a style that includes boldface, or outlined text. Now type " command-shift-+ 2 command-shift-space" and then continue typing. Often the text now acquires the style of the following paragraph, and no amount of command-shift-spacing will fix it, unless you select the offending text and then type command-shift-space. This is extremely aggravating, and never happened in 3.02. Has anyone else experienced this one? I could go on....but am not sure of my remaining complaints. Jim Meiss jdm@euclid.Colorado.edu
nilesinc@well.UUCP (Avi Rappoport) (10/31/89)
In article <35942@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >>I've had problems with Word 4.0 crashing under MultiFinder on a 2 MB >>Mac SE. The Microsoft helpline react incredulously with "There are no >>bugs in Word 4.0" (how do they KNOW??!?) > >Well, I beta tested Word 4 on a 2Meg Mac under multifinder. Until I >upgraded to a Mac2, I was using it a couple of hours a number, all under >Multifinder. I use it on a daily basis here on a 4 Meg Mac SE under >multifinder. It's never crashed in any of those configurations. (I could, > A "crash" and a "bug" are two different things. Someone was keeping a list of bugs and I contributed a few. HOWEVER, a lot of people are using Word 4 under MultiFinder successfully (including me), so check your inits. Avi Rappoport Disclaimer: Don't blame Rich for anything I say. nilesinc@well.uucp, Niles.Assoc on AppleLink