Re: p.c. way to say "crashing"

[Sharon Burton <sharonburton -at- EMAIL -dot- MSN -dot- COM>]

The MS standard says, I am doing this from memory, "The application quits
responding"

I like it.

sharon

Sharon Burton
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-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Arnett <keith_arnett -at- RESTON -dot- OMD -dot- STERLING -dot- COM>
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU <TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
Date: Thursday, 04 June, 1998 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: p.c. way to say "crashing"


>     One engineer I worked with insisted on saying something like, "the
>     program may terminate unexpectedly."
>
>     Keith Arnett
>     Technical Writer
>     Sterling Software, Inc./Operations Managment Division
>     Reston VA USA
>
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>Subject: p.c. way to say "crashing"
>Author:  Lizak Kristin <LizakKristin -at- jdcorp -dot- deere -dot- com> at INTERNET
>Date:    6/4/98 8:48 AM
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>I am looking for ideas. Marketing wants me to rewrite a sentence that
refers
>to your software program crashing. Obviously "crashing" is not a good word,
>and they don't like "program quits responding."
>
>This is for an addendum to the Users Guide. A part of the program was
fixed,
>and we are looking for a tactful (i.e. "flowery") way to refer to when
their
>program fizzles out. Any suggestions would be welcome. THANKS.
>
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