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From: akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: WfW Bug - The Final Chapter
Summary: fast save mode
Keywords: w4w
Message-ID: <1990Nov25.211455.21273@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 25 Nov 90 21:14:55 GMT
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In article <28377@usc> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>I recently noticed that all my WfW files have some extra stuff either at the 
>beginning or the end of the files.  This stuff NEVER showes up when editiong 
>the document with WfW, but it does show up when checking the content of the
>files by using MORE or TYPE for example.  It seems that this extra data can 
>come from duplicating porions of the same file, or be the contents of other
>files being edited at the same time, or even random memory data.

I would guess that you are using the fast save mode, where word just
puts in information about what changed, it does not make a full save.
I would also guess that if you told it not to use fast save, then you
would not see any extra stuff.

kartik
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