RE: Bug in eloquence for JAWS, hhope this helps a few people

  • From: Bruce Toews <water_drinker@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 07:53:52 -0600 (CST)

I take back my earlier doubt. It's true. I just tried it and it happened.

Bruce

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On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Thomas Stivers wrote:

> I can reproduce the crash of jaws. The send error report screen comes up
> and alt-d will dismiss it so I can then do ctrl-alt-j to start jaws
> again. The combination of letters that brings about the crash is c a e s
> u r e, which is a misspelling, but jaws shouldn't be that picky about
> spelling. I did have to fight a strong temptation to send the word on
> the list and crash a few thousand people's copies of jaws, so be proud
> of me. Let's just hope that all the other list members have scruples as
> well. I think I will switch to dectalk access 32 for a while just to be
> on the safe side.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Jack Lowe
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 7:18 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Bug in eloquence for JAWS, hhope this helps a few people
>
>
> Well, I just tried it several times and it didn't crash.  And I can
> honestly say
> that in my 6 years of using different computers and the various versions
> of
> Jaws.  I've never seen Jaws crash because of the spelling of a word.
> This is
> all news to me.  I just don't see how it's possible.  Combinations of
> letters
> are nothing but sounds, and jaws just pronounces, or tries to pronounce
> what it
> sees.  Now, why a curtain group of letters and sounds could cause Jaws
> to crash
> just doesn't make sense.  I'm not saying that it can't happen, but the
> likelihood of it happening is nearly impossible.
>
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