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From: bill@crystal.UUCP
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Subject: Re: The apple public-domain editor
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Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 20:10:07 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug  4 20:10:07 1985
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> [I can't believe this bug is still around]
> 
> This is a followup to an article about 'Edit', Apple's public-domain
> editor which comes with MDS, Aztec C, and presumably several other
> programming languages.  I have been using Edit heavily for the past few
> months as part of my Aztec-C system, on a 128K Mac  ...
> I have been greatly inconvenienced by its bugs.  Many
> times Edit has pretended to save a file when actually it doesn't, so
> when I reopen the file I have lost all my changes.  Edit has also been
> known to munge, chew up, and generally destroy files to an extent that I
> always have to keep backups of everything and never know when I'm going
> to lose data.  Also, it seems to be lacking in error checks for low
> memory, because I can easily crash the system by opening too many
> windows, keeping a large file in memory, changing the font on a large
> file, etc. In general, Edit has been a source of much grief for me.  I

I have also had problems with Edit.  PLEASE MENTION VERSION WHEN YOU POST
AN ARTICLE ! ! !  I have three versions so far:  10/24/84, 12/12/84, and
1/15/85 (which came with the new Aztec C update last week).  the 12/12
version cost me 40 lines of editing (even though I back up regularly, I quit
by doing "Save", which did a REVERT, and it was too late...).

I sure hope a certain C compiler written by the same guy has been debugged
a little better...

Any other known bugs?
Anybody have a more recent version than 1/15/85?
Please mail me, and I'll summarize.
Is there a more current version with the CompuServe Supplement?

	bill

	William Cox
	Computer Sciences Department
	University of Wisconsin, Madison WI
	bill@uwisc
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	William Cox
	Computer Sciences Department
	University of Wisconsin, Madison WI
	bill@uwisc
	...{ihnp4,seismo,allegra}!uwvax!bill