This is a followup on the message I sent about an hour ago. Here is an ls -l on the directory sr1-usan-05$ ls -lt total 23808 -rw------- 1 dmjacob staff 15354363 Apr 20 11:22 core -rw-rw-r-- 1 dmjacob staff 11752 Apr 19 13:58 #ECCcurves.c# -rw-rw-r-- 1 dmjacob staff 143 Apr 19 12:30 ECCcurves.c You can see that the monster paste did seem to get into ECCcurves.c. It is in the #... file saved at April 19 13:58, and caused the file to grow to 11752 bytes. (That is small comparied with the amount I tried to paste.) But the crash didn't occur until April 20, 11:22, 21 hours and 25 minutes later, which was while I was on vacation and XEmacs was just sitting there. -- David Jacobson -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~