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From: ables@hi3.aca.mcc.com (King Ables)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Interleaf screw-up (what, another one?)
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Date: 24 Mar 88 17:30:24 GMT
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In case you haven't come across this one, beware.  Interleaf's
WPS product (under Unix) uses a directory in the user's desktop
for scratch files used in printing files.  The problem is it
doesn't delete the files after printing (or ever!).  The
user's ~/desktop/.deskprint directory just keeps filling up
with junk.  Since the directory begins with a dot, the user
doesn't always even know it exists!

At best you waste a lot of disk space, at worst, WPS uses up
all the names it can generate for scratch names and you lose
your ability to print a certain file after a while!  The scratch
file name is based on the name of the document, so if you cut
parts out of it, you can print those since they will have another
name.  It is all VERY confusing until you know why it's happening!

Since I don't read this group, I didn't know if this had been
described long ago or not, so I figured too much info was better
than not enough.  The problem seems to start with WPS 2.5.

-king
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