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Article #37857Re: 6.0.2 and Word
From: John Dutka
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1989 01:48
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1989 01:48
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In article <330@bridge2.3Com.Com> ngg@bridge2.3Com.com (Norman Goodger) writes: >Losing 8 hours of work sounds like something he deserved if you aks me. >Anyone foolish enough to trust a computer not to destroy his work by >NOT SAVING FREQUENTLY deserves what he gets...and it appears to me that >this person who is blaming Microsoft for the problem he created...needs >to learn how to use Command-S a little more often... >just my opinion.... It MAY be your opinion, but you know littleof the situation. The guy saved the document pretty often. What killed the document was a crash. Word crashed, and in the process, trashed the file. If it just saved the old doc to a temp file, and THEN wrote the new file, things would have worked out perfectly... +--------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+ | John A. Dutka (jdutka) | You've heard of the SI system of units, and the | | WPI Box 2308 | British system of units, well, now, we've got | | 100 Institute Road | the WPI System of Units (WSU). More later. | | Worcester, MA 01609-2280 +-------------------------------------------------+ | (508) 792-1949 | BITNET: jdutka@wpi.bitnet | | | INTERNET: jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu | +--------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!husc6!m2c!wpi!jdutka From: jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu (John Dutka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: 6.0.2 and Word Message-ID: <866@wpi.wpi.edu> Date: 16 Feb 89 01:48:54 GMT References: <35727@bbn.COM> <730@wpi.WPI.EDU> <330@bridge2.3Com.Com> Reply-To: jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu (John Dutka) Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA Lines: 22