Re: Unerasing (was: Re: What the modern stuff can't do.)

["Steve Crutchfield" SCRUTCH@xxxxxxxx]

Another trick which has saved my butt a LOT has been the autosave
feature. By turning it on, I can go to the AUTOSAVn.TMP file, and get
back what I had recently trashed.

Steve

≪< David Auerbach  10/ 5 6:04p ≫>
On 10/05/99 at 05:50 PM,
  Eric Van Tassel <101233.342@xxxxxxxx> said (in so many
words):

<- I not infrequently
<- (let's say three times in a good week) have to bail out of DOS and
go
<- into Win3.1 simply to undelete something I've erased too hastily.
(I
<- try to remember to save work-in-progress on a floppy and abandon it
on
<- the hard drive; Undelete gets touchy if anything has been done to
the
<- pertinent sector of the hard drive since the deletion took place,
and
<- I never know whether I'm treading on my own toes if I save any
other
<- file.)

<- I must admit that if I were tweaking XyWrite in the innermost core
of
<- its being (which I'm not competent to do) one of the features I
<- wouldn't mind having is a built-in Undelete.
 If you mean a built in file undelete or a recover my last ten
versions
of this file, that can be built into Xy pretty easily using XPL. It's
probably already been done. For the former, all you need is a
pseudodelete key that renames the file (cleverly) and sticks into some
undelete directory. For the latter you need a replacement for your
save
key, that does something similar. Again, someone just must have done
this already; I'll bet it is inside of xywweb.u2?




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                     David

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