joe@oregon.uoregon.edu (10/16/90)
When a user recently ran about twelve huge Mathematica jobs at once over the network while I was working at the console, and thereby managed to exhaust all available swap space on my cube, I discovered an interesting phenomena (this behavior is under 1.0; who knows what happens under 2.0?): After getting a dialog box announcing that the disk was full, I attempted to save the document I had been editing. I was then told that there was insufficient space to save the document. Fine. Naively, I assumed that Edit wouldn't destroy my old version of the document. Wrong! I was horrified to find, after rebooting my machine and restoring my Dock (it had been wiped by the panic) that the entire document was *gone*. Zero bytes. Nada. I caution you all strongly: be aware that Edit can byte you badly! Joe (JOE@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU or JOE@OREGON) Statistical Programmer and Consultant University of Oregon Computing Center