Re: behavior when saving


Subject: Re: behavior when saving
From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 15:22:28 CST


On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Michael Leddy wrote:

> Here's a question about 9.6.1 with Windows 98:

> already exists. Do you want to replace it?" In other words, the
> convenience of saving with the save button or Control-S is gone.

> change or coming up with an esp. nice sentence). Is there some reason why
> the quick save doesn't work with .doc format?

i dont really know, i have a few ideas on what i might be but i wont
speculate (for a change)

As a workaround you could use abiword and change to RTF when you
are finished (abiword does not yet really support .doc its
just a renamed .rtf but you probably know that already)

> By the way, what's a .bak file (in the automatic save option in
> Preferences)? Is it a file-type specific to AbiWord? Where do these .bak
> files get saved? I can't find anything about "bak" using the Help search.

Backup .bak,
but Abiword can be configured to use any extension you like

> I've been using AbiWord since 0.7.3 (I think)--it's great to see the
program
> get better and better.

Please try and crash Abiword, that way we can make sure it is as solid and
stable as possilbe for v1.0

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sincerely
Alan

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