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From: mayerk@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Kenneth Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Recovering Word 3.0 files
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Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 18:31:50 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  1 18:31:50 1987
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Reply-To: mayerk@linc.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (Kenneth Mayer)
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Keywords: Microsoft Word 3.0 crashes
Summary: Why isn't recovery built-in?

Considering all of these horror stories about crashed documents, I wonder why
Microsoft didn't think to build in a recovery routine in 3.0. That would make
it a sensible design that crashes gracefully with the minimum amount of damage.
Considering the reports, it seems to be a simple routine: Copy the file. Try to
open it as a formatted document, and if that doesn't work, open it is a
textfile.

(But who ever said MS had *sensible* designs :-)
Kenneth Mayer:					mayerk@eniac.seas.upenn.edu