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Subject: Re: 6.0.2  and Word
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Date: 11 Feb 89 01:40:39 GMT
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In article <1790@tank.uchicago.edu> see1@tank.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher) writes:
>>I have a friend who uses word - under 6.0.2 and multfinder, while saving, Word
>>"unexpectedly quit" causing him to loose 8 hrs worth of work....
>
>[profanity deleted]
>
>I find it incredible that anyone with ANY computer experience would
>work on a document for eight hours without saving it.
>
>Every computer lab on campus has a sign suggesting that, in order to
>save themselves and the support staff a lot of grief, they save
>their work EVERY FIFTEEN MINUTES.
>
>Enough said.
>
>-- 
>Ellen Keyne Seebacher                 University of Chicago Computing Orgzns.
>see1@tank.uchicago.edu                staff.ellen@chip.uchicago.edu      

Actually, the poor fellow *had* saved; it was only when he did a Save
As... that Word barfed and left naught but a file of half-digested bits.
The problem was that Word crashed as it was *overwriting* a saved file.

As for me, I never use Save As (in ANY program) without changing the name
of the saved as file to Something Completely Different.

Word is probably not the World's Worst Offender, but it's so widely used
that Steve Costa, BMUG's File Messiah Extraordinaire, has had to save
more trashed Word documents than any other, by a looooooooooong margin.

John Heckendorn


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