CompuServe Messages

I find through further time- and work product-consuming investigation that it only occurs when the text to be replaced is longer than the requester in which it is entered. Normally, I get a guru, but tonight when I apparently typed in more text than the requester could handle, it just locked up. The machine couldn't have been doing anything, I hadn't told it to do anything yet. I don't want to be pushy, but couldn't the machine just beep when an overflow like that occurs, instead of crashing or locking up? Mike