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In an article of <20 Feb 90 21:47:48 GMT>, thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek 
Fong) writes:

 DF>Is there a  DA/Cdev or something out there which will autosave files 
 DF>for the
 DF>user.  (most useful for word processing)  I know FullWrite Pro 
 DF>supposedly 
 DF>does that, but I'm not about to buy a new word processor for just that
 DF>feature, and lose all of the time I spent learning Word 4.  I womost 
 DF>interested in something similar to the thing done in CMU (Carnegie 
 DF>Mellon U.)
 DF>'s Pascal Genie or in the Karel Genie.  It periodically autosaves for 
 DF>you with-
 DF>out destroying the "original file" on disk  by saving a file called 
 DF>AutoSave 
 DF>of <filename>.  This is useful since you might not really want to save 
 DF>your
 DF>changes you just performed.
 DF>
Why don't you just use AutoMac (which came with Word 4.0) and assign a key 
combination to do it as you type?  AutoSave SOUNDS good but cam mess you up on 
occasion.  I find that tapping a key works much better.

Leo Bores



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