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- From: James_Zuchelli@qm.claris.com (James Zuchelli)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: EDITOR
- Message-ID: <15351@claris.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 01:57:04 GMT
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- In article <aland.721366689@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>, aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.) writes:
- >
- > 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
- >
- >
- No, I don't think I was using Fast Save. I never use it, not at home or at
- work. I also remember opening raw downloads and having problems with keeping
- things together.
-
- I also called microsoft on the problem and they said the program wasn't designed
- to handle files that large. I think they said 2 or 3 megs was the largest
- they reccomended ( this may have changed since then.)
-
- James Zuchelli
- --------
- Thsi is my opinion and not that of Claris Corp or my Empolyer.
-