Dear friends: Again, my thanks to everyone who helped. OK, here is the lowdown after an hour or so of playing around with SO's backup feature. First, I downloaded the 70 meg binary from Sun into my home directory, then untarred it as a user and installed it as a user in my /home partition (into /home/sher/Office51). So51a will definitely do automatic backups of files (if "Always create backup files" is checked in Options, General, Save. HOWEVER, as I found out after successfully trying out Axalon's suggestion, there is still a hitch and I wonder if any of you have this problem: Unlike WP8, where a backup is created automatically the first time you save a file (and give it a name), this does not seem to be the case in SO, at least not in my case. I first have to first save a file (giving it a name), then I have to close it, come back and add a line or two, then SAVE AS, not Save. Naturally, doing this once, when you first start a file, is hardly worth mentioning. But you have to do it EVERY TIME. That is, the only way I can get an automatic backup of a file is to SAVE AS or else click on Close, then choose to save it (that is, overwrite it). Apparently, unless SO sees the name it won't save the changes created in the .bak file. I tried this with both the default path directory for backup and my own. I may be wrong about this, but I am certainly curious to know if your experience has been any different. Thank you all so much. Benjamin -- -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
