Re: Consideration of "saving" files

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

John Kodis wrote:

> This model is already in use on Palm Pilots (the autosaving part at
> least, not the reversion unfortunately).  

And, indeed, was around on things like the Apple Newton long before
that.

> It's a nice way to work, but I think that very frequent auto-saves or
> a much higher level of reliability will be required before I'd stop
> missing a way to force a save to disk of a document that I'd been
> editing.

Well, I think Seth's suggestion did include a way of forcing a save, by
"tagging" a document as he put it-- although that does suggest to me
something that users might only do when their document reached a certain
signficant state, rather than a paranoid save-for-safety.

You're right about reliability, though... whenever a new version of M$
W*rd arrives on my PC, the first thing I do is switch off the auto-save
because it always seems to cause more crashes and corrupt documents than
all its other features put together!

Cheeri,
Calum.

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