Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!uwasa.fi!ts From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Auto-Backup in WS2000 Message-ID: <1991May14.033414.29959@uwasa.fi> Date: 14 May 91 03:34:14 GMT References: Organization: University of Vaasa Lines: 23 In article chatsubo@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Wayne Hudson) writes: >I'm looking for some sort of TSR that'll make periodic backups >of the document you're working on in WordStar 2000 rel 3 >(ie like WordPerfect does. as far as I know, WS2000 doesn't) > >Another alternative would be some sort of reminder that >went off every 5 min. to remind the user they should save their >work. But something like this would have to be turned off/on, >ie when they quit, it shouldn't beep/remind them when they're >no longer editing and just sitting at DOS. > >Anyone have any ideas? In fact you gave me an idea. I have a timedown.exe resident clock (timer) in /pc/ts/tstsr10.arc that can be set to run down, and then give a single alarm. I think I'll write a parallel program that will give the periodic alarm that you suggest. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37 School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun