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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: TP5 losing work
Keywords: TP5, lost source files
Message-ID: <1496@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 89 07:30:31 GMT
References: <2472@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
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Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <2472@blake.acs.washington.edu> djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor) writes:
<My wife is working on a TP5 program which does quite a bit of graphics
<and even involves redefining the mouse cursor.  Working with such
<volatile stuff, you can certainly expect a machine hang every *once*
<in a while <grin>, but what's been happening lately is puzzling.
<
<She'll finish up a bit of code-polishing and start the recompile - 
<reexecute process when the screen freezes.  After a cold boot, she
<finds that the source code file is still "there" (names exists in
<the FAT and DIR listing), but it's empty (size=0).  In other words,
<the old source is wiped clean (or pointers to the location are wiped,
<whatever) but the hang occurs before the new source can be written
<to the (hard) disk.  Norton Utilities was able to do a sector-by-sector
<rebuild of the *old* version of the source, but the new changes are
<nowhere to be found.
<
<It doesn't happen every time, but it's bitten her twice in one week
<while she was "in-between" floppy disk backups!  (sorry, shouldn't
<grin here, but "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on
<me" seems to apply here...)  Is this a predictable occurrence when
<working with new (buggy) programs in TP5?

Yes. TP keeps the source in RAM. All changes exist only in RAM until
you *explicitly* save the file. My advice is to hit the F2 key (save
file) and *then* recompile/execute. 
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