Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbfsb!cbnewsc!straka From: straka@cbnewsc.att.com (richard.j.straka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted,aus.mac Subject: Re: INIT to delete Word4 temporary files Summary: Crash Snapshot Message-ID: <1990Dec7.135528.6336@cbnewsc.att.com> Date: 7 Dec 90 13:55:28 GMT References: <1990Dec6.083606.443@darwin.ntu.edu.au> Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.wanted Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 24 In article , drew@pollux.anu.oz.au (Drew Corrigan) writes: > jenner@post.ntu.edu.au (Bob Jenner) writes: > Coincidentally, I discovered a "cause" of the temporary files. It seems > that if you are running Word under MultiFinder and do a Restart or Shutdown > without first quitting Word, it leaves its temporary file in the System > Folder. Our secretaries routinely do this and one had >200 temporary files! > (So much for the files being "temporary" :-)) Provided you don't normally shut off the machine in such a manner, this is an incredibly convenient mechanism to see how often your machine crashes while MS Word is launched (1/2 :-)). On the other hand, this might be an opportunity for someone to write an INIT to write a log keeping track of open applications (/environment) so that when intermittent crashes happen, you could keep statistics to ferret out the problem. The crash state could be determined at boot time by looking at the "dirty bit" or something similar? Or have I missed something along the way? -- Richard Straka AT&T Bell Laboratories, IH-6K311 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- UUCP: att!ihlpf!straka MSDOS: All the wonderfully arcane INTERNET: straka@att.ATT.COM syntax of UNIX(R), but without the power.