Location: http://www.usa.net/~schuler
Version: 1.02
>> From: Jon Reinberg <Mira.Reinberg-1@tc.umn.edu> (Jon)
>> Date: Fri, 17 May 96 11:32:30 -0500
>> Subject: OgEdit problems and suggestion to Ray Schuler
>>
>> Also, one suggestion to Ray Schuler, I know I lost at least 2
>> articles I wrote on OgEdit by saving it with a filename longer then 8.3.
>> For instance, I wrote a page of article; and saved it as biosketch.txt
>> (forgetting the 8.3 limit; used to Win95 & OS/2 & Mac). The OgEdit looked
>> like it saved the file. Then, I quit OgEdit, and tried to start it up again
>> and open it, and I did't find it! I was dumbfounded, and then I realized
>> about the 8.3 limit. Maybe, instead of making the user thing that OgEdit
>> saved the file; have a dialog saying "File is longer then 8.3"...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jon
Your problem had nothing to do with file names.
OgEdit is equiped with AI routines that detect boring articles.
Once such a paper is discovered, the document is automatically
wiped out and potential readers are spared. :)
Seriously, I'm so sorry you lost your work. Normally I only
fix bugs that affect my favorite customer (me!). But this one
sucks. I always use 8.3 naming (even under Unix and OS/2 where
I don't have to) so I've never been burned by this.
So....
I've just released a new version of OgEdit which implements
your suggestion. If the file will not open with write access,
the user receives a dialog stating such. When a file is sucessfully
written, a dialog pops up stating the file name, and the number
of bytes saved.
Thanks for alerting me (and others) to this potentially serious
problem.
>> ... The OgEdit screen started to
>> flash, and I could not do anything. To quit it, I had to push the OG "Off"
>> button (Wierd, huh?). I couldnt exit by pushing the "Exit" button. Whats
>> going on?
I remember a post similar to this a few months ago, but I (and
my beta testers) could not repeat the crash. I have no way to
look into this unless it is repeatable with nothing but OG ROM
programs and OgWare (OgEdit, OgComm, and OgFile) loaded.
Regards,
Ray