Colin's correct. I was thinking of edited members and had forgotten
about deleted.
BTW: the append-style Save is what MS Word does and one can see their
older edits if they open an edited Word doc into a raw text processor
such as BBEdit.
hth
-Buzz
At 12:00 PM -0400 6/28/01, Colin Holgate wrote:
>>'Save' is a quick Save, appending changes to the end of the existing file.
>>
>>'Save & Compact' reintegrates the changes and rewrites the file.
>>If a file is large, or there were lots of edits, this could take
>>appreciable time.
>>
>>'Save As' reintegrates the changes and writes a new file.
>
>I'm not sure that Buzz said what was removed. When you do a save,
>things that you may have deleted from the cast are still taking up
>file space. When you save as, or save and compact, those old members
>are not saved into the new file, and so you get the space back.
>
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