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From: mw22#@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Michael Alan Wertheim)
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Subject: Re: Appleworks prefixes
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Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 13:52:56 EDT
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   I think I know why Appleworks can't seem to remember the prefix.  You may
not notice this at all with a hard disk drive, but Appleworks is constantly
loading in overlays from the disk.  If you are in the word-processor and you
switch over to the spreadsheet, Appleworks reads in the spreadsheet module
from disk.  If you then go back to the word-processor, Appleworks will read
in the word-processor module from the disk.  These module files are primarily
located in the files SEG.M0 and SEG.M1.  Also, whenever you print something,
Appleworks loads the file SEG.PR.  Anyway, whenever Appleworks loads any of
these files, whatever prefix the user has set previously will be forgotten.

   The reason Appleworks will only let you read or write one text file to a
given prefix at a time is that somewhere between the time you read/write a
text file and the time you attempt to read/write another text file,
Appleworks has loaded one of its overlays, forgetting your prefix in the
process.

   Sounds like a bug to me...

Michael Wertheim
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

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