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From: jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu (John Dutka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 6.0.2  and Word
Message-ID: <866@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 89 01:48:54 GMT
References: <35727@bbn.COM> <730@wpi.WPI.EDU> <330@bridge2.3Com.Com>
Reply-To: jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu (John Dutka)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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In article <330@bridge2.3Com.Com> ngg@bridge2.3Com.com (Norman Goodger) writes:
>Losing 8 hours of work sounds like something he deserved if you aks me.
>Anyone foolish enough to trust a computer not to destroy his work by
>NOT SAVING FREQUENTLY deserves what he gets...and it appears to me that
>this person who is blaming Microsoft for the problem he created...needs
>to learn how to use Command-S a little more often...
>just my opinion....

It MAY be your opinion, but you know littleof the situation.  The guy saved
the document pretty often.  What killed the document was a crash.  Word
crashed, and in the process, trashed the file.  If it just saved the old doc
to a temp file, and THEN wrote the new file, things would have worked out
perfectly...

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