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[Richard Gaskin]

Shari wrote:

>>> 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.

They both use the same file format and engine.  What was happening in Rev
that prevented saves?

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