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Write/Now Bug?

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From: Steve Goldfield
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1989 17:42
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As long as I've used WriteNow (both 1.0 and 2.0) under
some undetermined circumstances (which I think are related
to being in a folder removed from the application), there
is a 2 or 3 minute delay in creating a new file. The
application creates a file icon named Untitled-1 which
cannot be used or moved to another folder until it
converts to the icon with the name of the created file.
I just assumed this was normal WriteNow behavior.
It doesn't always happen, but it frequently happens this
way.

But I just phoned T/Maker about it and their technical
support person says they've never heard of this one.
So I agreed to post this notice to see if anyone else
has seen the same behavior.

I'm running on a 5 meg Mac II with a 40 meg hard disk,
system 6.0.2, multifinder, with lots of inits and cdevs.
I mention this because T/Maker asked me about such matters.

They'd particularly be interested to know if someone with
a much simpler configuration (such as running in the finder
without the inits and cdevs) has noticed the same behavior.

Please send any Email to steve@violet.berkeley.edu.

Thanks,

Steve Goldfield

P.S. about the file launching problem with WriteNow we
discussed recently, I've been noticing that if I immediately
try to relaunch a WriteNow file just after it refused to launch,
it generally will launch. Strange...
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Subject: Write/Now Bug?
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