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Shari gogypsy at bellsouth.net
Sun Mar 24 21:17:01 EST 2002


>  > Re:  Revolution... I actually downloaded both Metacard and
>>  Revolution, and started out using Revolution.  Word on the 'net was
>>  that Revolution was cheaper and had more features, but used the same
>>  engine.  Good selling points.  But Revolution crashed every few
>>  minutes, literally, during development.  And I had to adopt the habit
>>  of copying EVERY SINGLE code change, addition, etc. to a SimpleText
>>  file, so that when it crashed and burned, I did not lose whatever
>>  code I had just written.
>
>Why not just save?
>
>Unlike other xTalks, the MC file format is not prone to corruption.  Crashes
>can cause you to lose unsaved work, but in nearly five years I've never seen
>a corrupted stack file.

Revolution was the culprit, not Metacard.
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