peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP (Peter Rowley) (10/01/83)
After spending about an hour typing in some text with the Notepad(tm) editor
that accompanies the Microsoft mouse, I saved it using the editor's Transfer
Save command, left the editor, and TYPEd the file, finding just odd re-
arrangements of the last half dozen or so lines of the file. So beware--
it's a nice editor to use once one gets used to using the mouse, but I'm
not sure I'll trust it anymore. I'm quite sure I didn't do anything untoward,
though I do have a mixed 160K/320K drive system. It was Notepad Ver. 1.00.
I have yet to contact Microsoft about this-- I thought I'd try the net for
hints first.
On the bright side, the second time I typed in the material, this time using
IBM's Personal Editor (a perfectly reasonable simple editor), it came out
better, so Fred Brooks' "plan to throw one away" rule seemed to apply.
peter rowley, University of Toronto Department of C.S., Ontario Canada M5S 1A4
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