dlh@raider.MFEE.TN.US (Dana L. Holt) (03/09/90)
I would just like to pass on an experience that I had about 5 mins
ago. If you are a programmer back-up your source code! I was writing an
alternate desktop (ie. like NeoDesk). I have spent about 9 months on it.
This little gem (ha,ha) had everything! Write verify toggle,repair disk,
own item selector,8 windows,all drive support,twisted format,extended format,
load program into memory and switch between them,neat little icons,colors!,
timer,auto screen off,seek time set,and many more! I had also written some
assembly programs to go with it (ie. utilitys!).. Well, I just got finished
with it and compiled it. Ok, I test it out, all works great! I'm soooooooo
happy,run the resource editor (change a few things),save the new .rsc file,
load up the editor to edit the code a little for looks,i get TRASH!,bang
on keyboard,doesn't help.. All programs on disk are screwed! Do you think
i'm gonna do it all over? Hell no! So the moral of this story is "If you
have a big project, back-up you code!!!"..
THE END
dlh@raider.MFEE.TN.USwallace@oldtmr.enet.dec.com (Ray Wallace) (03/10/90)
In article <191@raider.MFEE.TN.US>, dlh@raider.MFEE.TN.US (Dana L. Holt) writes... ... >alternate desktop (ie. like NeoDesk). I have spent about 9 months on it. ... >on keyboard,doesn't help.. All programs on disk are screwed! Do you think >i'm gonna do it all over? Hell no! So the moral of this story is "If you >have a big project, back-up you code!!!".. You seriously wrote code for 9 months without backing up any of it? Anyone writing code on the ST (or any computer for that matter) you SHOULD back up your sources VERY frequently. At best once a day (assuming your editing every day) at the worst once a week (same assumption). Even the VAXes (running VMS) here at work get backed up daily and they are MUCH less error prone than the ST. Of course some may argue that the stuff on the VAXes is much more important than what I have on my ST :-) So, yes Dana I totaly agree with you..BACK UP YOUR CODE...I'm sorry to here that you had to learn the hard way. --- Ray Wallace (INTERNET,UUCP) wallace@oldtmr.enet.dec.com (UUCP) ...!decwrl!oldtmr.enet!wallace (INTERNET) wallace%oldtmr.enet@decwrl.dec.com ---