Re: Xy4 cloberring to EOF after series of changes

[cld@xxxxxxxx]

Who knows what causes these anomalies? I wouldn't worry
about it -- unless it happens more than once in a blue
moon.

If something like this does happen again, don't SAve the
file! Rather, issue REC to recall the last
version saved to disk. REC makes a backup copy of the
trashed file (SAVE1.TMP, located in the Xy program
directory), which you can refer to when reconstructing
your lost edits. (Use FD to compare the two
versions.) Also, the AUTOSAVE backup can help, if you
enable Autosave. Depending on when you last saved
manually, SAVE1.TMP may be a more (or less) recent
version than AUTOSAVEn.TMP.

Good luck.

--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx
http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/
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> This may have already been resolved here, but i was wondering if anyone
> could kind of explain what might have happended in my situation.
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> I am editing a 90K text file. Going thru and adding bold attributes to
> selected pieces of text via a cva type command.
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> At one point, after having ok'd a replacement, the screen sort of flashed,
> momentarily showing some garbage characters, but then returned to the point
> that i started by changes. I assumed that it had found all it could, so i
> then saved my document. Bad move. In paging forward, i found that it had put
> a bunch of garbage from that point to the end of my file.
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> (Not all is lost and i think i can recover the original text) but i was just
> curious as to what might have caused this, and what i might do to be more
> cautious.
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> I was using a '486 machine running DOS and had loaded the U2 library (an
> older version, not the latest.)
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> Thanks for any info!
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> Russ