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From: tron@wpi.wpi.edu (Richard G Brewer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 6.0.2  and Word
Message-ID: <962@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 89 15:44:55 GMT
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Just an update on the situation with Word. A while back I posted a message
which contained a rather lengthy letter I recieved from a friend regarding a
problem he had had with Word - He lost 8 hours of work after turning off fast
save (which he used frequently while writing), and saving the document under
multi-finder. He also had several problems with Microsoft's user support
service (i.e. they didn't know what to do, or have any suggestions). Well, we
got a letter the ofther day directly from Paul J. Davis, the program manager
for WORD for the Mac (Who said screaming bloody murder doesn't work?). He
didn't like how we flamed on word publicly. Fair enough. We're sorry, but if
MS's save procedure is the same as the one we've been discussing, then why the
heck didn't those temp files have a backup for the document? We (Jay and I)
set out to find the answer. Here are our discoveries. 

WORD doesn't like it when you run 6.02 with MultiFinder and TOPS.  Period.
Through trial and error we discovered this, so be forewarned.  Microsoft -
take heed, and be sure that this incompatibility doesn't exist in 4.0, as this
combination of software is becoming more and more popular, judging from the
places I've worked over the summer, and the news I've recieved over the net.

Richard G. Brewer
Mechanical Engineer in the Making (1991)

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