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From: ecphssrw@io.csun.edu (Stephen Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Editor recovery (was: Re: Unvalidated hard disk)
Message-ID: <661@solaria.csun.edu>
Date: 18 Apr 89 18:57:45 GMT
References: <7350009@hpscdc.HP.COM> <5214@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
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In-reply-to: ugkamins@sunybcs.uucp (John Kaminski)

In article <5214@cs.Buffalo.EDU>, ugkamins@sunybcs (John Kaminski) writes:
>
>2.) is an editor going to be written that realizes that fact and save
>      automatically?

Word Perfect has a save-every-few-minutes feature.  For editors that support
ARexx (Uedit, TxEd+, CygnusEd Pro), it is pretty easy to write an ARexx
script to do it for you too.
>
>3.) is DEC EDT going to be ported to the Amiga (ha!) or something like it
>      that creates a history file (called a journal or .JOU file by DEC)?
>
"Porting" isn't the correct word, perhaps "cloning" is.  Saving every
keystroke as you type (which is what a .JOU file contains) has always
seemed excessive, as in one of the ways Dec gets people to buy huge
disks from them at high prices.
--
Stephen Walton, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Univ. Northridge
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