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Article #38131Re: 6.0.2 and Word
From: Ace Swerling
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1989 21:53
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1989 21:53
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In article <1790@tank.uchicago.edu> see1@tank.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher) writes: >>I have a friend who uses word - under 6.0.2 and multfinder, while saving, Word >>"unexpectedly quit" causing him to loose 8 hrs worth of work.... > >[profanity deleted] > >I find it incredible that anyone with ANY computer experience would >work on a document for eight hours without saving it. > >Every computer lab on campus has a sign suggesting that, in order to >save themselves and the support staff a lot of grief, they save >their work EVERY FIFTEEN MINUTES. > >Enough said. > >-- >Ellen Keyne Seebacher University of Chicago Computing Orgzns. He said that he did save the work. He said that he was finished and was doing a Save As... with Fast Save turned off to save some disk space. What Word did was to delete his old copy, and try to re-save the file over again. This was not his fault, it was definitely wither Word's or MultiFinder's fault. -Ace swerling@caen.engin.umich.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!caen.engin.umich.edu!swerling From: swerling@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ace Swerling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: 6.0.2 and Word Message-ID: <416a987c.17c67@tender.engin.umich.edu> Date: 11 Feb 89 21:53:00 GMT References: <35727@bbn.COM> <730@wpi.WPI.EDU> <1790@tank.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: swerling@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ace Swerling) Organization: University of Michigan Engineering Lines: 24