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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: WfW Bug - The Final Chapter
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Date: 27 Nov 90 08:45:24 GMT
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In article <1990Nov25.211455.21273@cs.uoregon.edu> akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:
|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.

Yep, I turned off Fast Save, and the extra stuff disappeared. Thanks to all
that suggested the fix.

-- Marco
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