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From: anson@elrond.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Recovering Word 3.0 files
Message-ID: <888@elrond.CalComp.COM>
Date: Tue, 26-May-87 13:26:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: elrond.888
Posted: Tue May 26 13:26:33 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 27-May-87 05:08:46 EDT
References: <365@sdics.ucsd.EDU>
Reply-To: anson@elrond.UUCP (Ed Anson)
Organization: Calcomp Display Products Division, Hudson, NH, USA
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Keywords: Microsoft Word 3.0 crashes temp files

In article <365@sdics.ucsd.EDU> norman@sdics.UUCP (Donald A. Norman) writes:
>	A routine back-up save to the hard disk hangs up.  66% written
>and nothing is happening.  The 66% figure stays there, the clockface cursor
>sits there, but no disk noises. j-clock keeps running.  20 minutes
>later it is still there. So I take a few more deep breaths and reboot.
>	[interactions?  j-clock.  Superspool Imagewriter spooler.
>	Standard Mac +.  DataFrame 20 Mbyte hard disk. Nothing else
>	that should cause problems.] 

This may or may not be the problem...
I also use Superspool Imagewriter spooler with Word 3.0, and a curious
interaction occurs.  From time to time, I notice that Superspool has stopped
printing out data, even though it is far from done.  Simply clicking the 
mouse in a Word window starts it up again.  This doesn't happen with other
applications, and probably has something to do with other input related
phenomena noted previously on the net.  Could it be that Word and Superspool
can deadlock during a save?(!!!)  (The original poster didn't mention
whether printout was in progress when this happened.)
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