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- From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: EDITOR
- Message-ID: <aland.721366689@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 03:38:09 GMT
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- James_Zuchelli@qm.claris.com (James Zuchelli) writes:
-
- >A couple of years ago I had to edit 10 megabyte text downloads. I found the
- >only reliable way was to use the MPW Editor. MS Word ( at least then crica
- >1988) would mess up the files. I would save them and open the files later
- >to find that the beginning of the file was a the end and the middle parts
- >were all messed up.
- >MPW never had trouble. Whatever you use, make sure you check your files
- >after they are saved and reopened to make sure that nothing is messed up.
-
- This was probably because you didn't (possibly couldn't) disable "Fast
- Save" which meant that Word would have understood the file if you
- reopened it, but any other program would show what you found, that the
- contents were out of sequence. That's because Fast Save just appends
- changes to the document, rather than doing them in place.
-
- -=Alan
-