This time a real clip bug: it crashes...

[Bob Zimmerman zimmerman@xxxxxxxx]

Howdy all,

Having used Xy4 now for about a week to write my emails, I have discovered that clip seems to crash
about once every ten times I use it.

When I complete an email, I use the following keyboard macro to dump the text into the clipboard:

NN=SA,TF,DF,BF,NOJM2,.,c,l,i,p,w,c,Q2,ES,BX,(,a,b,),BX,(,q,u,i,t,),Q2

First this macro saves the test, then it selects it, activatives clip.exe to put it in the
clipboard, then aborts the file and then quits Xy4.

As I mentioned, this process crashes about 1 in 10 times. When that happens, the text is not placed
in the clipboard.

I know that the crash occurs with clip.exe, not only because the Windows error box tells me this,
but because the first command in the keyboard macro works. The text gets saved, then clip.exe
crashes. I can still sent my email by cut-and-pasting the saved file into my email.

Any help in fixing this bug would be appreciated.

Bob

PS: Here is the error data provided by Windows for the last three crashes:

CLIP caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 017f:bff8fc65.
Registers:
EAX=000003e0 CS=017f EIP=bff8fc65 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=8224a262 SS=0187 ESP=0063f788 EBP=0063f7a8
ECX=00000031 DS=0187 ESI=82249404 FS=4c27
EDX=00511000 ES=0187 EDI=00410ada GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
66 8b 0a 0f b6 d5 0f b7 14 53 88 4d f8 c0 6d f8
Stack dump:
82249404 82240031 00510aec 7343b336 000003e0 73444422 0000003f 00000156 0063f7e4 bff7d115 82249404
00511000 005112ac 00410850 000003e0 82240031

CLIP caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 017f:bff8fc65.
Registers:
EAX=000003c6 CS=017f EIP=bff8fc65 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=8224a262 SS=0187 ESP=0063f788 EBP=0063f7a8
ECX=00000031 DS=0187 ESI=82249404 FS=821f
EDX=00511000 ES=0187 EDI=00410aba GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
66 8b 0a 0f b6 d5 0f b7 14 53 88 4d f8 c0 6d f8
Stack dump:
82249404 82240031 00510acc 7343b336 000003c6 73444422 0000003f 0000012c 0063f7e4 bff7d115 82249404
00511000 00511258 00410820 000003c6 82240031

CLIP caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 017f:bff8fc65.
Registers:
EAX=00000422 CS=017f EIP=bff8fc65 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=8224a262 SS=0187 ESP=0063f788 EBP=0063f7a8
ECX=00000031 DS=0187 ESI=82249404 FS=5ecf
EDX=00511000 ES=0187 EDI=00410b3a GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
66 8b 0a 0f b6 d5 0f b7 14 53 88 4d f8 c0 6d f8
Stack dump:
82249404 82240031 00510b2c 7343b336 00000422 73444422 0000003f 000001b8 0063f7e4 bff7d115 82249404
00511000 00511370 004108d0 00000422 82240031
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