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MacWrite bug/oversight/bad assumption

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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 1984 07:42
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Date: 26 Jun 1984 22:53:00-EDT
From: uw-beaver!Walter.Smith@CMU-CS-SPICE
Subject: MacWrite bug/oversight/bad assumption
To: utcsrgv!peterr
To: microsof!infomac

When using MacWrite, DO NOT call your document "Print File".

To demonstrate why: New; type a few words; Save with filename "Print File";
Print.  When it finishes printing, a "This document is not openable" alert
will appear, followed by system errors 26 and (if you Resume) 13.

It seems that when it "saves printed document to disk" (what is it doing,
by the way?), it uses the filename "Print File".  Too bad for your
document...

Walter Smith (wrs@CMU-CS-SPICE)
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Subject: MacWrite bug/oversight/bad assumption
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