CompuServe Messages

Still more investigation resulting in considerable wear and tear on the guru has led to the conclusion that overfilling the string gadgets will definitely crash PS 2.1. This occurs with either the search text or replace text requesters. Apparently, fully filling the requester the first time (which I had unwittingly done) without crashing will cause a crash with the second request when the program tries to offer the gadget with the previous request still in place and tries to find room for the cursor. That was what I was getting which led to my initial report. Now I find that if you bring up either requester and start typing and keep typing, the system will invariably fail, sometimes with a guru and sometimes by locking up. I tried massively increasing the stack (for whatever that was worth) from the stock 4096 (!) to 64 K, with no change in the result. I didn't bother to count the number of characters it takes to blow things up, but I was typing "Sunflower Plants Having a High Frequency of Regenerability from Isolated Protoplasts and Method of Using Same in the" [BOINNGGG!! — not including the quotes]. I realize that's kind of a long search string, but I thought it would be quicker than retyping the text in situ (and apart from the crash, it was.) I suppose this shows why you test software under extremes of use rather than under normal conditions. However, I'm repeating my call for help and a fix. This shouldn't happen with version 2.1 of anything, and especially not professional quality software. Mike