7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

[Richard Gaskin]

Dr. Hawkins wrote:

 > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >>
 >> What is a "background" save?
 >
 > doesn't it periodically update the ~ rescue file, or some such?
 >
 > If not, then it's recognizing a problem and attempting to save

Probably the latter (almost certainly so given the subsequent posts from 
others about RC4 that have come in).

The ~ file is the first of two steps the engine takes when saving: 
whenever a save command is issues for a stack file, the engine first 
makes a backup of the last saved copy to the ~ filw, then writes a fresh 
copy into the original file name, and after completing the checksum on 
that it deletes the ~ file.

This is probably borne of Dr. Raney's Unix roots - LC originated on Unix 
where that sort of auto-backup is common.

This save bug seems like a particularly nasty regression, but the bug 
reports from Eric and Trevor hopefully RunRev will get an RC5 out ASAP.

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