Re: Re: Instabilities(?) in mma 30 under W95
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- Subject: [mg6921] Re: [mg6890] Re: [mg6844] Instabilities(?) in mma 30 under W95
- From: Xah Lee <xah at best.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 14:00:48 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
At 2:31 AM -0400 4/25/97, jason welter wrote: >I have lost a notebook because of corruption problems with MMA 3.0 & >Win95. I don't know what happened but I do know that I regularly have >problems when editing input cells, at least in one notebook. When I >edit the cell I loose text and cannot get it back. I have to convert >the input cell to text, edit it, then convert it back to Input format. >I am using PPro200/32MegRam. Me too. I constantly experience problems in input cells. I'm using a Mac. Mma 3.0 is very unstable compared to v.2. With mma 3.0, the crash can also totaly corrupt notebooks currently open, even they are already saved. Solution: while working on important notebooks, make _backup copy_ every few minutes. If you have time, report reproducible crashes with detailed procedure to Wolfram. Help them out a bit. Xah xah at best.com http://www.best.com/~xah/SpecialPlaneCurves_dir/specialPlaneCurves.html Mountain View, CA, USA "Morality abets evil"