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From: wallace@oldtmr.enet.dec.com (Ray Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Programmers, back up your code!
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Date: 9 Mar 90 18:11:59 GMT
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In article <191@raider.MFEE.TN.US>, dlh@raider.MFEE.TN.US (Dana L. Holt)
writes... 
				...
>alternate desktop (ie. like NeoDesk). I have spent about 9 months on it.
				...
>on keyboard,doesn't help.. All programs on disk are screwed! Do you think
>i'm gonna do it all over? Hell no! So the moral of this story is "If you
>have a big project, back-up you code!!!".. 

You seriously wrote code for 9 months without backing up any of it? Anyone
writing code on the ST (or any computer for that matter) you SHOULD back up
your sources VERY frequently. At best once a day (assuming your editing every
day) at the worst once a week (same assumption).

Even the VAXes (running VMS) here at work get backed up daily and they are
MUCH less error prone than the ST. Of course some may argue that the stuff on
the VAXes is much more important than what I have on my ST :-)

So, yes Dana I totaly agree with you..BACK UP YOUR CODE...I'm sorry to here
that you had to learn the hard way.
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