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Article #74Re: Word 5.0a and the Finder--Word crashes when switching to it
From: Salient Software
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 01:38
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 01:38
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In article <720291204.12455@minster.york.ac.uk> (comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc), simpson@minster.york.ac.uk writes: > Luc Beaudoin (lpb@cs.bham.ac.uk) wrote: > : We're running the latest version of system 7 on a Mac SE/30 4/80. I have > : found that MS Word 5.0a crashes often. It crashes (and brings the whole > : machine down with it about once every 8-10 hours > > I got a similar thing. I never found out what caused it. > When in the Finder, before opening Word, select About this Macintosh under the Apple menu and position that window so you can view it when opening Word. Watch the bar graph for the system. If the empty area to the right fills up then you are having heap problems. Each window open on your system takes memory from the heap. You might want to look at upgrading your memory. for all FGS products FIFTHGEN@aol.com for AutoDoubler & DiskDoubler techsupport@salient.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!decwrl!decwrl!netcomsv!salient.com!HarriRehnberg From: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Word 5.0a and the Finder--Word crashes when switching to it Date: Wed, 28 Oct 92 17:38:40 PST Organization: Fifth Generation Systems Message-ID: <0105010A.h904v4@salient.com> Reply-To: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software) X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v3 Lines: 18