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Re: xywrite Digest V15 #54

Prof. Mendelson, gratitude and thanks for the attempt.

Carl, where does that command go? Terminal mode on my Mac?

And can you copy-paste a text file because my Yahoo mail keeps adding obvously wrong characters. 

Thanks.  

JP 


On Monday, June 26, 2023, 09:10:03 PM EDT, FreeLists Mailing List Manager <ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


xywrite Digest    Mon, 26 Jun 2023    Volume: 15  Issue: 054

In This Issue:
        Re: Autosave on Mac
        Re: Autosave on Mac

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Subject: Re: Autosave on Mac
From: Carl Distefano <cld@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2023 21:23:28 -0400

I wonder if the issue here has to do with Unix-style file permissions. If so, the fix might be a command like
  for n in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do; chmod u+rw "AUTOSAV$n.TMP"; done
Unfortunately, I can't elaborate as my internet access is severely limited for the time being -- sorry.

--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxxxx


On Jun 24, 2023, 7:01 AM, at 7:01 AM, Kari Eveli <lexitec@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Jon,
>
>I have no experience of Macs, so I am of little assistance if any.
>
>Have you tried to delete autosav1.tmp (it may be locked by the system
>making rewrites impossible)?
>
>Another idea: if autosave does not work for you, could you or someone
>else devise a cron job within the Mac OS to handle this? E.g. see
>https://apps.apple.com/ao/app/crontab-creator/id1438725196?mt
>
>Best regards,
>
>Kari Eveli
>LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
>lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx
>
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>
>
>>
>> I appreciate you for responding,  Kari, but nothing works.
>Autosav1.tmp
>> is still an ancient file. Something I didn't store yesterday
>> disappeared, though luckily I had uploaded it elsewhere.
>>
>>
>> Settings.dfl, even after multiple restarts, includes:
>>
>> df BKÿ>>
>> DF AOPÿ\XY4\XY  (which is where settings.dfl and all newly written
>> files are located, according to XY command line)
>>
>> DF AOTÿ10
>>
>> I've lost a couple of things so this is as worrying as it is
>baffling. I
>> think it's an interaction between XY4 and DosBox-X but I don't know
>> what's going on.
>>
>> Jon P.
>>
>> JP


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From: Edward Mendelson <em36@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Autosave on Mac
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:01:29 -0400

I finally got around to testing this on my two Mac-based Xy4 systems, one based on vDosPlus, the other on DOSBox-X. Both had AOT commented out in SETTINGS.DFL; When I uncommented that setting, and restarted each app, AUTOSAV1.TMP and AUTOSAV2.TMP were created as expected in the correct locations. I used the Find Any File utility to find filenames that started with “AUTOSAV� and ended with “.TMP�, searching within packages, and the files (created today) appeared.

I don’t have any idea of why this isn’t working on your setup.
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