Re: Some example code for a new crash handler

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Josh Steiner wrote:

> I am inclined to aggree with the solution that Havoc is suggesting, that
> the most correct way of dealing with this kind of situation is with an
> autosave function.  It's much more valuable to have a program periodically
> autosaving while in a good state than having a partially corrupted,
> semi-crashed program do it.

Just don't do it like Micros$**t used to-- the autosave feature was
about the most crash-prone part of Word 6.0, resulting in many lost
documents until you decided to turn it off and just hit ^S now and again
:)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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