PMMail crashes on select text

[John M Price, PhD]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Ray wrote:

> John M Price PhD wrote:
> 
> >I don't know, but it seems that 2.10 is worse than 2.00.  Today, the
> >thing crashed as I was selecting text from one message to paste into
> >another I was writing.  That rather long message was killed.  The
> >system, in fact, froze dead.  Watchcat would not even come up.  Dead -
> >dead - dead.
> >
> >That long message I was composing?  PMMail asks to reopen message when a
> >bad shutdown takes place.  What I got had no relation to what I wrote,
> >it was about three lines from another message entirely.
> >
> >Sheesh.
> 
> That's a pretty awful problem but I must say whatever my complaints
> about PMMail/2 I haven't seen this behavior.  I used to see earlier
> versions of PMMail/2 crash and the like, and after pullling my hair
> out for quite some time, I stopped using the keyboard macro
> application I was using (jumpkey, I thnk it was called) and -- no
> more crashes.
> 
> It's certainly unacceptable behavior, but I can't remember seeing
> other messages (about PMMail/2 that is, as opposed to PMMail 2000
> which I think "Dave in Phoenix AZ" is talking about), so I'd wager
> it's a conflict with another program.

What other program?

Sure, other windows were up, but none active (obviously).  I have one
program that's always in background, a Ckermit clipboard utility, but I've
been running that since O/S2 2.1, and the 2.0 version of PMMail/2.


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