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Re: Microsoft and obsolescence (was Re: KDE v. Gnome - don't you guys ever change subject lines when a thread goes off topic?)

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From: M O'Neill
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 00:00

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On Tue, 06 Oct 1998 23:04:00 GMT, antispam@feverish.demon.co.uk
(Robert Wilderspin) wrote:

>On 5 Oct 1998 15:53:49 GMT, phuae@lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr S A
>Penny) wrote:
>
>>also I think the 'quick-save' option just dumps the data structure whereas the
>>default is to 'defragment' the virtual file-system which makes up the word6
>>file...
>
>I thought that quick-save basically appended the changed sections of
>the document to the end of the file, thus reducing both the time to
>save and the time between phone calls to Simply.

that's my understanding as well.  Sammy was dead right about saving to
floppy.  It's much faster to do it in two steps.

>
>
>Rob Wilderspin
>--
>"But I need it to crash once every few days - 
>reboots are the only chance I get to sleep..."
>----------------------= (send replies to rob@)

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From: darrow@oneillaw.com (M O'Neill)
Subject: Re: Microsoft and obsolescence (was Re: KDE v. Gnome - don't you guys ever change subject lines when a thread goes off topic?)
Date: 1998/10/11
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