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WARNING!!! Sigma Edit 1.11 problem

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From: Tom Carstensen
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 1988 18:48
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Sigma Edit 1.11 was recently posted to GEnie, and I assume
it will quickly spread around the mac community.  There is
a problem/bug with SAVING files from within Sigma Edit.

When editing MPW or other editor's text files with Sigma Edit,
and then saving them, via SAVE, Sigma Edit changes the creator,
and deletes information that was in the resource fork, which 
contains info for the original owner of the text file.

This is not good practice.  Any MPW text file I touched with
Sigma Edit would lose all of its formatting information.

It's OK to added your own formatting resource (ie EFNT and ETAB),
but don't delete the previous resource data IF IT WAS NOT
ORIGINALLY CREATED BY YOU.  This also means you should never
change the CREATOR unless the user does a SAVE AS..., whereby
YOU are creating the file.

Sigma Edit 1.1 does not have this problem.  It was introduced
in 1.11 because saving EFNT and ETAB resources was added.

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From: tomc@mntgfx.mentor.com (Tom Carstensen)
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Subject: WARNING!!! Sigma Edit 1.11 problem
Keywords: sigma edit text editor
Message-ID: <1988Jun8.114819.451@mntgfx.mentor.com>
Date: 8 Jun 88 18:48:16 GMT
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Beaverton Oregon
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