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Article #46598Autosaver
From: Derek Fong
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1990 21:47
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1990 21:47
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Reply-To: thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek Fong) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Stanford University Keywords: Is there a DA/Cdev or something out there which will autosave files for the user. (most useful for word processing) I know FullWrite Pro supposedly does that, but I'm not about to buy a new word processor for just that feature, and lose all of the time I spent learning Word 4. I womost interested in something similar to the thing done in CMU (Carnegie Mellon U.) 's Pascal Genie or in the Karel Genie. It periodically autosaves for you with- out destroying the "original file" on disk by saving a file called AutoSave of <filename>. This is useful since you might not really want to save your changes you just performed. Anyways, is there such a thing? (I would prefer shareware/freeware) And if not, I would think it would be a neat thing for a lot of the talented prog- rammer's out there to tackle. This "utility" would be useful to millions of students across the country who get very annoyed when they computer crashes while writing a paper. Thanks in advance. --Derek Fong fong@cive.stanford.edu thewho@portia.stanford.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!jarthur!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!shelby!portia!thewho From: thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek Fong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Autosaver Message-ID: <9362@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 20 Feb 90 21:47:48 GMT Sender: Derek Fong <thewho@portia.stanford.edu> Organization: Stanford University Lines: 30