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In article <1063@oswego.Oswego.EDU> vermilye@oswego.oswego.edu.Oswego.EDU (Jon R. Vermilye) writes:
>In article <35727@bbn.COM> oliveira@bbn.com (John Oliveira) writes:
>>
>>has anybody experience problems using microsoft word  with system 6.0.2,
>>i've been getting a lot of system bombs just by saving a file or just by
>>send it to print or even by just looking at the mac without doing anything
>>it just bombs.
>>is word incompatible with 6.0.2 system or is the system buggy?
>>thank you
>Check for a virus.  We have been using Word 3.01 & system 6.0.2 with
>out any problems.  
>
>Jon R. Vermilye

ARGGGGGHHHHHH!!  No flame intended, but I am really getting tired of every
one's first reaction to any glitch to be running for the hills yeling VIRUS!!!

First of all, Word is well known as not the most well behaved program.  Since
we know nothing about what inits John is running (which would complicate the
question somewhat) there is little or nothing we can say as yet.

Question to john:  It is unclear from your message, Is word your overwhelmingly
dominant application.  That is do you run anything else long enough or frequent
ly enough to know if the bomb is occuring in other circumstances.

In particular, since the bomb happens even when just sitting doing nothing
have you tried just leaving the machine at the finder level doing nothing
for a while?  I had a machine that was bombing intermittently and randomly
and I discovered finally that it would happen even just sitting at the
finder for a while.  As soon as I disabled my speedup card the system was
fine.  turns out the processor had gone flakey.

Anyway, I'd say you need to send some more specifics about the hardware 
and software environment before anyone can be of much help.

Josh



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