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Message no. 1
From: "Davidson, Chris" <Christopher.Davidson@***.BOEING.COM>
Subject: Re: [OT] Saving your data (was Re: Character Creation-Software (l
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 09:08:59 -0700
> > Ha! it restarts my computer, losing seven pages of a
> > story I was writing and three Megs of graphics! What fun!
>
> I hate to say it, but that's your own fault. If you mess around with
> stuff
> before saving whatever you're working on, and you lose the work in
> progress, then well, you should have saved... You may remember that
> just
> about _every_ Windows-based install program tells you to save your
> data
> and close all running applications before proceeding with Setup.
>
Yeah, but I like the newer Mickeysoft products...they actually tell you
which app is open, or which one it's having a problem with....just in
case a person is a little too deep in thought, and forget's to save. :)
Something many o' us programmers have done, hehehe.

-=Toffer=-

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