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Spell checking bug



Dear Folks,

I think the spell checking bug has been fixed.  There are three  
different ways that a program can inquire as to what processor is  
being used.  We used to have two of the three say that we're a 68040,  
but one of them still said we were a 68000.  A 68000 doesn't have a  
cache, so the software that used the third method would not realize  
that it needed to flush the cache.  I'm guessing that the Spell  
checking stuff was done by someone other than the folks that did Word  
in general, and that it used the third method.

The problem with intermittent crashes is that they're real hard to  
track down.  One thing that the new Executor provides is the ability  
to print a death certificate (and as such, save it as a PostScript  
file).  That will make NeXTmailing death certificates easier.  We'll  
use this list to give you a better idea of what bugs other people are  
reporting and what we're doing to fix them.

	--Cliff