MacWrite II cut/paste/crash bug!

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From: Brian Kendig
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1989 21:17

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I came across a nasty bug in MacWrite II that I suspect other people have
found, also.  I'd like to know how I can work around it, or get an upgrade...

It seems that when I cut and paste text under certain normal circumstances (I
haven't yet isolated the circumstances), the document will suddenly be trashed.
The text will become garbled, the cursor will behave in a *very* strange
manner, and finally MWII will repeatedly try to re-flow the document until it
gives up and crashes.

Anybody else come across this whiz-banger of a bug?

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From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: MacWrite II cut/paste/crash bug!
Message-ID: <10510@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 19 Sep 89 21:17:51 GMT
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Organization: Systems Engineering, NASA Space Station Freedom Project
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