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From: thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek Fong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Autosaver
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Date: 20 Feb 90 21:47:48 GMT
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Is there a  DA/Cdev or something out there which will autosave files for the
user.  (most useful for word processing)  I know FullWrite Pro supposedly 
does that, but I'm not about to buy a new word processor for just that
feature, and lose all of the time I spent learning Word 4.  I womost 
interested in something similar to the thing done in CMU (Carnegie Mellon U.)
's Pascal Genie or in the Karel Genie.  It periodically autosaves for you with-
out destroying the "original file" on disk  by saving a file called AutoSave 
of <filename>.  This is useful since you might not really want to save your
changes you just performed.

Anyways, is there such a thing?  (I would prefer shareware/freeware)  And if
not, I would think it would be a neat thing for a lot of the talented prog-
rammer's out there to tackle.  This "utility" would be 
useful to millions of students across the country who get very annoyed when
they computer crashes while writing a paper.


Thanks in advance.


--Derek Fong
fong@cive.stanford.edu
thewho@portia.stanford.edu