Subject: Re: MS Word does NOT do this!
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 09 2000 - 00:55:39 CDT
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On 9 Aug 2000, Tim LaDuca wrote:
> So I was typing the longest doc I had ever typed in AbiWord and was so
> proud of it I decided to print it. Unfortunately after sending it to the
> spooler Abiword dumped core. I thought well, I knew that might happen!
> Then I remembered Sam or somebody saying on the list they added a
> feature to have AbiWord save the document as it seg faulted. I checked
> out my home directory and there was the doc, just as it had been before
> I printed it. I may be mistaken, but I am almost positive MS Word is not
> that able. It is one of the most vexing things to be working on an MS
> Word document and then it crashes for no particular reason and all your
> changes are lost. How is it possible for a application that has
> basically crashed to still save its open document? Being a long time
> Word user I find this completely amazing.
>
Actually, the remarkable thing about this feature is that it took about
100 lines of code and an hour, after I figured out what to do. And most
of that was debugging. At least on Unix, signal handling is a trivial
feature to add, if you aren't doing anything complex (saving !=
complex). This is in fact what talkback builds of Mozilla do
(AFAIK). The fact that no one has ever done this in another significant
WP mystifies me completely.
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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