[comp.sys.mac] Word 3.02 Search Bug

roy@bonnie.ics.uci.edu ( John Roy) (12/23/88)

If one tries to Search... or Change... with ^233 in the search for
field, the whole machine crashes.  I've got a Mac II with 5M and
running 6.02 (not Multifinder).  It just crashes completely.  The
machine has to be rebooted from the programmer's key on the side.
(no, the mouse doesn't move either)

Microsoft, I'm sure you've found this one; but just in case you
didn't.  Please try it in 4.0 before you go to press.  I was just
playing around with getting rid of extra linefeeds (^10) and did a
search on (^233).  I would guess that you are assumming a certain
positive integer format and 233 goes negative.  Anyway it bombs
completely.  

I'll just avoid it in the future.
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