--- abiword.stable\abiword-plugins\tools\aiksaurus\xp\AiksaurusABI.cpp	Thu Mar 21 12:40:17 2002
+++ abiword.release-1-0-2\abiword-plugins\tools\aiksaurus\xp\AiksaurusABI.cpp	Sat Jun  1 23:07:47 2002
@@ -298,11 +298,11 @@
 	pView->moveInsPtTo(FV_DOCPOS_EOW_MOVE);
 	pView->moveInsPtTo(FV_DOCPOS_BOW);
 	pView->extSelTo(FV_DOCPOS_EOW_SELECT);  
 	
     // Now we will figure out what word to look up when we open our dialog.
-    char* search = NULL;
+    char* search = "";
     if (!pView->isSelectionEmpty())
     {
         // We need to get the Ascii version of the current word.
         search = AiksaurusABI_ucsToAscii(
                 pView->getSelectionText()