Yes, this could be it. They do every so often close it down using the on-off switch, which invokes the shutdown procedure, but too fast for rev to close and save properly. Could be. Thanks - at least it frees one from worrying that someone is trying to use a text editor on it.
Now what to do about it! At least it is fairly easy to recover from. Peter Martin Baxter-4 wrote: > > Peter, > > I believe the .rev~ file is made by the revolution engine automatically > when you do a stack save. It is a backup of the exisiting stack file > prior to the save command. If the save is successful it is deleted, so > you only see it if something went wrong. > > Assuming this is correct, this would suggest that the stack save > operation is failing part way through, for some reason. > > Martin Baxter > > Peter Alcibiades wrote: >> Here is a very weird situation. The program consists of a launcher, call >> it >> launcher, and the program proper, call it program.rev, and they are both >> in >> the same folder. >> >> I get a call that launcher is not starting up the program. On inspection >> of >> the folder, one sees the following: >> >> launcher [executable, 2.5mb] >> program.rev [unknown, 20k] >> program.rev~ [unknown, 300k] >> >> So, I delete program.rev, remove the tilde from the other name, and >> everything >> works fine. >> >> The only way I can think of to account for this is that someone opened >> the >> program.rev file in a text editor, and then saved it. All Linux text >> editors >> I know seem to make a backup copy with a tilde to distinguish them, on >> saving. >> >> Yet, the users at the time are definitely incapable of opening a file >> with a >> text editor and then saving it. This is the second time its happened. >> >> >> Any ideas on how it could happen, and what to do, gratefully received! >> >> Peter >> > > -- > I am Not a Number, I am a free NaN > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/locking%2C-permissions%2C-data-tp18586851p18597114.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
