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The Tuesday 2007-05-29 at 10:50 +0100, G T Smith wrote:
> > But you might work all day on a report, and on a stupid moment obliterate
> > it all. We all do such things some times... Or after long work, you decide
> > your last hour has been full of errors and it would be better to go back
> > in time. If the software is designed to save a version history of the
> > file, it might save our day on both cases.
>
> Ummm...
>
> I rather remember a variant of MS Word which incorporated not only the
> current document but all changes to that document by default. Document
> sizes suddenly rocketed, and subsequent document corruption due to media
> limits being hit became a major issue. Also editing became more and more
> difficult and slow as the document size increased. The response was to
> turn this feature off.
I remember that. OOo also has this feature. What I talk about is
different: it uses one file for each version, with a version field in the
file name managed directly by the operating system, not the application
program. It is also different from external backup, as it is automatic and
continuous, and can be affected by disk failure, of course.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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