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Re: AWGS Problem
In <1993Jul7.082139.1581@ualr.edu> hdgarner@acs.harding.edu writes:
>I have just experienced one of the strangest problems I have ever seen with
>AWGS. As I was making the final revisions of my term paper, I wanted to
>delete 2 lines of text. I tried every possible thing that I could think of
>but I could not get these 2 lines of text deleted without completely locking
>up the system. I tried to select the text and then cut it out or just select
>it and hit the space bar to replace it all with a space but in each case it
>just locked up and I had to reset or occassionally it would give me the
>fatal system error box and tell me to reset. This is quite odd and unlike
>any other problems that I have had with AWGS. It just does not seem to make
>sense that deleting some text would cause a crash. Any help regarding this
>problem would be greatly appreciated.
>
>P.S. : If anyone would like to look at this file I would be glad to send it
> to you to see if you might be able ot reproduce the same problem.
>
>
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>* Harry Garner hdgarner@acs.harding.edu <<Preferred *
>* Computer Science / Physics *
>* Harding University, Searcy, AR USA hgarner@sun1.hu.edu *
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Don't send it to me, I've got enough lockups on my current files. ;-)
AWGS will occasionally take a shine to some lines or characters and won't
let you do anything with them. The only solution I've ever found is to
start a new file and copy the rest of it out of the old one in order to
rescue as much as possible.
Also, when AWGS dies in the middle of saving a file it will _trash_ it
beyond recovery. Make a habit of saving to several different files, using
"Save As...", like FILE1, then FILE2, then FILE3. If you've saved it
without trouble, you can probably save it again, but once you have a glitch
you are out of luck . . . then you go back to the last successful save and
resume your quest for the perfect document. Having two or more successive
backups that way is better than just one, as you might end up going back
even further. I haven't trusted AWGS with more than fifteen minutes of my
work for a long time, after losing an hours's worth and then finding out
that the whole doc was gone: "unexpected EOF" is pretty much fatal, unless
someone knows a whole lot about file structure and is good at byte-zapping.
Loren
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From: bob@pro-scat.cts.com (Bob Morris)
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Subject: Re: Dragon Wars
Actually, I'm on a //c+ and a //c. I never got into "cards."
Question: many of the games you want are also in GS versions that are
available here on local Pirate boards. Would you rather have the GS
version of a game? If so, you might want to send a box of 3.5"s also.
Lastly,... hmm.. how shall I put this? Could you find some alternate form
of shipping payment? I would have real trouble trying to cash a check made
out to boB. It's not exactly on my Drivers license. Hey, you don't think
I'd use my REAL name do you?!? Just slip a $5 in the disk box; it's safe.
The house of ill-repute is:
16117 West Lake Burrell Dr.
Lutz, FL 33549-3560
boB
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