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Saving a loved one from a document disaster

dajames

Re: Lost Document...

Norton to the rescue! With only a 10MB HD to worry about I was able to find the first sector of the temporary file...

I recall that in WordStar on DOS Ctrl+C was the code for "Page Down" ... at least: most of the time it was, but very rarely, for no reason I could ever fathom, it was just Ctrl+C and quit the program.

I became quite adept at loading debug, finding the document data in RAM and saving them to disk. This usually got the most recent version of the most recently changed part of the document, which could with care be merged into the old copy of the document on disk. Saved many hours of retyping that way!

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