Re: Help with ProDOS file structure!

[cdeschu@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Chris Deschu)]

In article <2tbend$hmn@netaxs.com>, nobody special <rak@netaxs.com> wrote:
>Peter Handel (phandel@sempco.uucp) wrote:
>: I keep on doing the stupidest thing: in ProTERM v3.1's editor, I load a big,
>: important file, delete everything but the one line I want to send to the modem,
>: and then forget to press escape; so when I hit <openapple> 's', I save the line
>: onto the BIG file...ack.  This has happened to me about 3 or 4 times.  
>
>If that's the problem you're having, the safest thing to do is NOT to use 
>file:open to load the file into the editor; instead, go into the editor, 
>and use File:View Files to copy the file (or whatever portion of it you 
>need) into the editor.  What makes this so safe regarding your tendency 
>to forget to his escape is that the editor doesn't have the filename, so 
>it can't save over it.

There are other ways to send data from the editor to the modem, as well.
Either just press OA-D (Dump?) while in the editor, to send the entire
contents of the editor, or if you only want to send a little bit of data,
just select what you want to send in the editor, press OA-C (Copy), hit
escape to get out of the editor, and then hit OA-V (Paste to modem).
	Neither of these methods uses OA-S, so you're somewhat safe.
Good luck, I hope you manage to recover your file...
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