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Article #15197Word 3.0 bug and workaround
From: graifer
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1987 18:21
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1987 18:21
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Recently, my friend who has no printer on his Mac, stopped by with his
Word 3.0 and a document to print a draft on my IW before paying for time
at LW rental place.
Bug 1: The printout (Times) appeared to switch randomly from plain text to
italic on the printout, but not on the screen.
Bug 2: Curious, we decided to see what MacWrite thought of the document, and
did a SaveAs with MacWrite format. My friend (foolishly) gave it the
same name as the origanal document, and OKed the replacement. Count
up to 100% and BOMB.
Workaround: After my DataFrame20 finished rebuilding, there weren Icons for
a temp file, and a Word3.0 document. Word wouldn't open the temp
file, and complained about the document. Curious, I changed the
type/owner of these files to WORD/MACA. MacWrite complained about
the temp file, but loaded the document just fine ( it contained
nothing too fancy for MacWrite). I guess this is evidence that Word
3.0's SaveAs problems lie in the system calls to complete the Save.
I hope this helps out others who have bombs on saves with this product. Me?
I'll save my $s until something more reliable comes along.
--
Dan Graifer
graifer@net1.UCSD.EDU
Disclaimer: Nobody ever listens to me anyways; Why should they start now?
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