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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
Based on what is said in the groups, that it is not safe to work on a
document on a removable medium, but that we should copy the document to the hard disk and work on it there, I suppose the answer to my question will be no. But I just wanted to be sure. |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
No because to print it, it was to be opened.
-- JoAnn Paules Microsoft MVP - Publisher How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "Larry" wrote in message ... Based on what is said in the groups, that it is not safe to work on a document on a removable medium, but that we should copy the document to the hard disk and work on it there, I suppose the answer to my question will be no. But I just wanted to be sure. |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:37:34 -0400 from Larry :
Based on what is said in the groups, that it is not safe to work on a document on a removable medium, but that we should copy the document to the hard disk and work on it there, I suppose the answer to my question will be no. But I just wanted to be sure. First, you absolutely *can* print a document from a flash drive. Either open it and print it, or right-click on it in Explorer and select Print. Second, I don't know what's up with that "not safe". Editing a document on a floppy or a removable USB drive is no more or less safe than editing it on your computer's hard drive. There's the obvious caveat: you have to keep track of where the removable medium is, but other than that... -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
You can probably get away with it as long as printing is all that you do.
That is no editing or saving. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Larry" wrote in message ... Based on what is said in the groups, that it is not safe to work on a document on a removable medium, but that we should copy the document to the hard disk and work on it there, I suppose the answer to my question will be no. But I just wanted to be sure. |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
But it still has to be opened, and this creates temp files. Probably not a
major issue, but still a consideration. Some versions of Word, if fully patched, probably won't permit it, anyway. I haven't updated Office 2003 in over a year; I know I should, but for now I'm not experiencing any problems, and I keep seeing reports of weird effects of the updates, so I've dragged my feet. I do know that inability to open a file from a removable drive seems to be one effect of recent updates. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... You can probably get away with it as long as printing is all that you do. That is no editing or saving. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Larry" wrote in message ... Based on what is said in the groups, that it is not safe to work on a document on a removable medium, but that we should copy the document to the hard disk and work on it there, I suppose the answer to my question will be no. But I just wanted to be sure. |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
Stan Brown wrote:
Second, I don't know what's up with that "not safe". Editing a document on a floppy or a removable USB drive is no more or less safe than editing it on your computer's hard drive. Actually, Stan, this is incorrect when it comes to Word. Every time a document is opened and edited, Word creates a lot of temporary files in the same location as the original file. On a small floppy disk that runs out of space quickly, this is just about guaranteed to cause corruption sooner or later, as the files cannot be created or closed properly. A bigger flash/USB drive is less risky, but corruption still seems to be reported more frequently when editing from a USB drive than on the hard drive. |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
Rubbish. Please don't encourage using REM media with Word.
Terry "Stan Brown" wrote in message ... Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:37:34 -0400 from Larry : Based on what is said in the groups, that it is not safe to work on a document on a removable medium, but that we should copy the document to the hard disk and work on it there, I suppose the answer to my question will be no. But I just wanted to be sure. First, you absolutely *can* print a document from a flash drive. Either open it and print it, or right-click on it in Explorer and select Print. Second, I don't know what's up with that "not safe". Editing a document on a floppy or a removable USB drive is no more or less safe than editing it on your computer's hard drive. There's the obvious caveat: you have to keep track of where the removable medium is, but other than that... -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
The answer is certainly no. Word makes use of various temporary files as it
works (excuse pun). Saving to portable media is invariably too slow and files get easily corrupted. You *may* be OK loading *from* but why not just get into the habit of copying to the main hard drive and always working from there? "Larry" wrote in message ... Based on what is said in the groups, that it is not safe to work on a document on a removable medium, but that we should copy the document to the hard disk and work on it there, I suppose the answer to my question will be no. But I just wanted to be sure. |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:33:33 -0700 from Daiya Mitchell
: Stan Brown wrote: Second, I don't know what's up with that "not safe". Editing a document on a floppy or a removable USB drive is no more or less safe than editing it on your computer's hard drive. Actually, Stan, this is incorrect when it comes to Word. Every time a document is opened and edited, Word creates a lot of temporary files in the same location as the original file. "A lot of temporary files"? I've never seen more than one (when editing a Word doc that's on my desktop). Are you sure there are "a lot"? -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
OK, you only see just one file (read "container"), but who knows what it
contians and it can take a lot of space. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:33:33 -0700 from Daiya Mitchell : Stan Brown wrote: Second, I don't know what's up with that "not safe". Editing a document on a floppy or a removable USB drive is no more or less safe than editing it on your computer's hard drive. Actually, Stan, this is incorrect when it comes to Word. Every time a document is opened and edited, Word creates a lot of temporary files in the same location as the original file. "A lot of temporary files"? I've never seen more than one (when editing a Word doc that's on my desktop). Are you sure there are "a lot"? -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
There is one file for sure (the ~$ owner file), but there are frequently
also numerous ~$wrlxxx.tmp files, one for each save (or each save after the first if you are creating *.wbk backup files). I'm never sure why these are created--it may have to do with copying and pasting--but each is a complete copy of a previous saved version of the document, so if your file is quite large, each of these will be about the same size. They are (normally) deleted when you close the document. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:33:33 -0700 from Daiya Mitchell : Stan Brown wrote: Second, I don't know what's up with that "not safe". Editing a document on a floppy or a removable USB drive is no more or less safe than editing it on your computer's hard drive. Actually, Stan, this is incorrect when it comes to Word. Every time a document is opened and edited, Word creates a lot of temporary files in the same location as the original file. "A lot of temporary files"? I've never seen more than one (when editing a Word doc that's on my desktop). Are you sure there are "a lot"? -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:10:40 -0500 from Suzanne S. Barnhill
: There is one file for sure (the ~$ owner file), but there are frequently also numerous ~$wrlxxx.tmp files, one for each save (or each save after the first if you are creating *.wbk backup files). I'm never sure why these are created--it may have to do with copying and pasting--but each is a complete copy of a previous saved version of the document, so if your file is quite large, each of these will be about the same size. They are (normally) deleted when you close the document. Suzanne, a request: If you're going to put your quoted material after your signature, please don't use the "-- " signature delimiter. That prevents standard-conforming newsreaders, like Gravity, from quoting the previous material, and users must laboriously copy/paste to preserve context. Thanks! -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:10:40 -0500 from Suzanne S. Barnhill
: "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:33:33 -0700 from Daiya Mitchell : Stan Brown wrote: Second, I don't know what's up with that "not safe". Editing a document on a floppy or a removable USB drive is no more or less safe than editing it on your computer's hard drive. Actually, Stan, this is incorrect when it comes to Word. Every time a document is opened and edited, Word creates a lot of temporary files in the same location as the original file. "A lot of temporary files"? I've never seen more than one (when editing a Word doc that's on my desktop). Are you sure there are "a lot"? There is one file for sure (the ~$ owner file), but there are frequently also numerous ~$wrlxxx.tmp files, one for each save (or each save after the first if you are creating *.wbk backup files). I'm never sure why these are created--it may have to do with copying and pasting--but each is a complete copy of a previous saved version of the document, so if your file is quite large, each of these will be about the same size. They are (normally) deleted when you close the document. I understand now. I guess the creation of the extra files depends on particular work patterns. Either I've not worked in that particular way, or more likely when I have I wasn't paying attention to temporary files. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
Stan Brown wrote:
Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:10:40 -0500 from Suzanne S. Barnhill : There is one file for sure (the ~$ owner file), but there are frequently also numerous ~$wrlxxx.tmp files, one for each save (or each save after the first if you are creating *.wbk backup files). I'm never sure why these are created--it may have to do with copying and pasting--but each is a complete copy of a previous saved version of the document, so if your file is quite large, each of these will be about the same size. They are (normally) deleted when you close the document. I understand now. I guess the creation of the extra files depends on particular work patterns. Either I've not worked in that particular way, or more likely when I have I wasn't paying attention to temporary files. Mostly I only see this in action if Word crashes on me, when it leaves behind several "Word Work D_XXXX" files, as they are labeled on the Mac. But it's kinda neat sometimes if I have the relevant folder open in the background--when I hit Save I can see Word closing 6-7 temp files in the folder. I'm avoiding grading, so here's a KB article on it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/89247/en-us I *think* it supports my belief that the temp files are used to maintain the Undo list. |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
I think you're right about the Undo list. I rarely see the .tmp files
because I have Word's Open and Save dialogs set to display only All Word Documents, but when a long document becomes sluggish, I figure it may have to do with the number of files open, so I close and reopen it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message ... Stan Brown wrote: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:10:40 -0500 from Suzanne S. Barnhill : There is one file for sure (the ~$ owner file), but there are frequently also numerous ~$wrlxxx.tmp files, one for each save (or each save after the first if you are creating *.wbk backup files). I'm never sure why these are created--it may have to do with copying and pasting--but each is a complete copy of a previous saved version of the document, so if your file is quite large, each of these will be about the same size. They are (normally) deleted when you close the document. I understand now. I guess the creation of the extra files depends on particular work patterns. Either I've not worked in that particular way, or more likely when I have I wasn't paying attention to temporary files. Mostly I only see this in action if Word crashes on me, when it leaves behind several "Word Work D_XXXX" files, as they are labeled on the Mac. But it's kinda neat sometimes if I have the relevant folder open in the background--when I hit Save I can see Word closing 6-7 temp files in the folder. I'm avoiding grading, so here's a KB article on it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/89247/en-us I *think* it supports my belief that the temp files are used to maintain the Undo list. |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
I would imagine this would be a setting in your newsreader. If I *didn't*
use the signature delimiter, others would complain. And *many* (including me) would complain if I bottom-posted. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:10:40 -0500 from Suzanne S. Barnhill : There is one file for sure (the ~$ owner file), but there are frequently also numerous ~$wrlxxx.tmp files, one for each save (or each save after the first if you are creating *.wbk backup files). I'm never sure why these are created--it may have to do with copying and pasting--but each is a complete copy of a previous saved version of the document, so if your file is quite large, each of these will be about the same size. They are (normally) deleted when you close the document. Suzanne, a request: If you're going to put your quoted material after your signature, please don't use the "-- " signature delimiter. That prevents standard-conforming newsreaders, like Gravity, from quoting the previous material, and users must laboriously copy/paste to preserve context. Thanks! -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
Well, I was asking for a friend who moves back and forth between computers
and likes to do that. I personally never work on a removable medium, having absorbed that lesson from the Word newsgroups over the years. Also, I did wonder if the USB flash drive since it is so large would be different from a floppy in this regard. "Aalaan" wrote in message ... The answer is certainly no. Word makes use of various temporary files as it works (excuse pun). Saving to portable media is invariably too slow and files get easily corrupted. You *may* be OK loading *from* but why not just get into the habit of copying to the main hard drive and always working from there? "Larry" wrote in message ... Based on what is said in the groups, that it is not safe to work on a document on a removable medium, but that we should copy the document to the hard disk and work on it there, I suppose the answer to my question will be no. But I just wanted to be sure. |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
In this case, it appears that perhaps the speed of transfer might be an
issue rather than the size of the drive. Not to mention the speed with which the user removes the drive (i.e., like a floppy, if it's removed before Word gets through with it, you'll end up with garbage). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Larry" wrote in message ... Well, I was asking for a friend who moves back and forth between computers and likes to do that. I personally never work on a removable medium, having absorbed that lesson from the Word newsgroups over the years. Also, I did wonder if the USB flash drive since it is so large would be different from a floppy in this regard. "Aalaan" wrote in message ... The answer is certainly no. Word makes use of various temporary files as it works (excuse pun). Saving to portable media is invariably too slow and files get easily corrupted. You *may* be OK loading *from* but why not just get into the habit of copying to the main hard drive and always working from there? "Larry" wrote in message ... Based on what is said in the groups, that it is not safe to work on a document on a removable medium, but that we should copy the document to the hard disk and work on it there, I suppose the answer to my question will be no. But I just wanted to be sure. |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
No, it's a pretty universal rule in email clients, part of whatever
specs govern the web. The dash-dash-space is designed to cut off everything after it, which, if everyone were bottom posting, would nicely prevent any sigs from building up. It doesn't work well with top-posting. Of course, 90% of the time you are the last word on a question, and it doesn't matter. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I would imagine this would be a setting in your newsreader. If I *didn't* use the signature delimiter, others would complain. And *many* (including me) would complain if I bottom-posted. |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:50:03 +1000, "Aalaan"
wrote: The answer is certainly no. Word makes use of various temporary files as it works (excuse pun). Saving to portable media is invariably too slow and files get easily corrupted. You *may* be OK loading *from* but why not just get into the habit of copying to the main hard drive and always working from there? This is yet another bug that we have had for so many releases. I guess M$FT is too poor to fix bugs. The temp files should all be in a temp directory, not cluttering up my personal folders and certainly not written to floppies. And there is no excuse for a M$FT application using the M$FT file system to ever crash or have corruption. This is just ****ty code. It would not get a passing grade in an undergraduate programming course. Total BS. -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
Well, IMO your friend would be well advised to adopt the habit of copying
from his removable media to the hard drive he's working on, as a matter of course. A bit more tedious yes but a heck of lot less tedious than a corrupted file. "Larry" wrote in message ... Well, I was asking for a friend who moves back and forth between computers and likes to do that. I personally never work on a removable medium, having absorbed that lesson from the Word newsgroups over the years. Also, I did wonder if the USB flash drive since it is so large would be different from a floppy in this regard. "Aalaan" wrote in message ... The answer is certainly no. Word makes use of various temporary files as it works (excuse pun). Saving to portable media is invariably too slow and files get easily corrupted. You *may* be OK loading *from* but why not just get into the habit of copying to the main hard drive and always working from there? "Larry" wrote in message ... Based on what is said in the groups, that it is not safe to work on a document on a removable medium, but that we should copy the document to the hard disk and work on it there, I suppose the answer to my question will be no. But I just wanted to be sure. |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
Well if the temp locking file was placed in your temp folder, how would
someone else with access to the same folder on the server be aware that the document was already open and stop them from opening and editing the document at the same time as you. Chaos would reign. Terry "LurfysMa" wrote in message ... On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:50:03 +1000, "Aalaan" wrote: The answer is certainly no. Word makes use of various temporary files as it works (excuse pun). Saving to portable media is invariably too slow and files get easily corrupted. You *may* be OK loading *from* but why not just get into the habit of copying to the main hard drive and always working from there? This is yet another bug that we have had for so many releases. I guess M$FT is too poor to fix bugs. The temp files should all be in a temp directory, not cluttering up my personal folders and certainly not written to floppies. And there is no excuse for a M$FT application using the M$FT file system to ever crash or have corruption. This is just ****ty code. It would not get a passing grade in an undergraduate programming course. Total BS. -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:45:25 -0500 from Suzanne S. Barnhill
: I would imagine this would be a setting in your newsreader. If I *didn't* use the signature delimiter, others would complain. And *many* (including me) would complain if I bottom-posted. You mean a setting in my newsreader to do it wrong? Not available. And if it were it wouldn't be appropriate -- like saying "I'm in the US but I want to drive on the left, so everyone else must go around me." No one should complain if you stop using the delimiter wrongly, or if they do then they are complaining out of ignorance. The RFCs exist for a reason -- if people follow them then everything works better. The problem is that you're doing two nonstandard things, and the combination creates a conflict. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Outlook Express (or Windows Mail) by default puts quoted text below the
(delimited) signature - as per this message. Are you saying that's wrong? And, if so, could you point me to the RFC (I can't see anything about it in RFC 1036)? -- Enjoy, Tony "Stan Brown" schreef in bericht t... Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:45:25 -0500 from Suzanne S. Barnhill : I would imagine this would be a setting in your newsreader. If I *didn't* use the signature delimiter, others would complain. And *many* (including me) would complain if I bottom-posted. You mean a setting in my newsreader to do it wrong? Not available. And if it were it wouldn't be appropriate -- like saying "I'm in the US but I want to drive on the left, so everyone else must go around me." No one should complain if you stop using the delimiter wrongly, or if they do then they are complaining out of ignorance. The RFCs exist for a reason -- if people follow them then everything works better. The problem is that you're doing two nonstandard things, and the combination creates a conflict. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
There are (at least) two different issues here.
Operating system (e.g. Windows) locks must be placed somewhere where the operating system can find them and relate them to the locked resource. Where appropriate (e.g. concurrent updating in multi-user environments), application-level (e.g. Word) locks must be placed somewhere where other instances of the application can relate them to the original resource. I don't think any current versions of Word require such locks. Application temporary files should normally be placed in local temporary space. Instead of using the %temp% directory provided by Microsoft's own operating system specifically for this purpose, Word chooses to use the document's source folder. This does confuse users and does cause problems when working on networked devices and/or removable media. The only time there is any real reason to use a file's source folder for temporary work space is when saving a file - to make sure the file is properly saved before removing the original - overwriting in place is inherently risky. I am inclined to agree that Word's behaviour would be considered bad programming practice, and I can't think of a single thing in its favour. -- Enjoy, Tony "Terry Farrell" schreef in bericht ... Well if the temp locking file was placed in your temp folder, how would someone else with access to the same folder on the server be aware that the document was already open and stop them from opening and editing the document at the same time as you. Chaos would reign. Terry "LurfysMa" wrote in message ... On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:50:03 +1000, "Aalaan" wrote: The answer is certainly no. Word makes use of various temporary files as it works (excuse pun). Saving to portable media is invariably too slow and files get easily corrupted. You *may* be OK loading *from* but why not just get into the habit of copying to the main hard drive and always working from there? This is yet another bug that we have had for so many releases. I guess M$FT is too poor to fix bugs. The temp files should all be in a temp directory, not cluttering up my personal folders and certainly not written to floppies. And there is no excuse for a M$FT application using the M$FT file system to ever crash or have corruption. This is just ****ty code. It would not get a passing grade in an undergraduate programming course. Total BS. -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:53:04 +0100 from "Tony Jollans" My forename at
my surname dot com: Outlook Express (or Windows Mail) by default puts quoted text below the (delimited) signature - as per this message. Are you saying that's wrong? Yes, I'm afraid it is. The signature delimiter says "in a reply, don't quote anything that follows". I don't think you're going to find an RFC that says "'don't quote anything that follows' means not to quote anything that follows". :-) I'd prefer not to fatigue folks who come here for discussions of Word by getting into a long thing on Usenet formatting. I had thought Suzanne was simply unaware of the convention, and offered a polite reminder, but I don't want it to turn into an of argument so I won't post again on this topic here. (Anyone who wants to pursue it in email is welcome to.) For those who might be interested in the reasons behind the convention, here are a couple of good references: news.newusers.questions FAQ: "Quoting Style in Newsgroup Postings" http://www.xs4all.nl/%7ewijnands/nnq/nquote.html "The Advantages of Usenet's Quoting Conventions" http://www.mccaughan.org.uk/g/remarks/uquote.html "How do I Quote Correctly in Usenet?" http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Is it ok to print a Word document from a USB flash drive?
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:24:11 +0100, "Tony Jollans" My forename at my
surname dot com wrote: There are (at least) two different issues here. Operating system (e.g. Windows) locks must be placed somewhere where the operating system can find them and relate them to the locked resource. Where appropriate (e.g. concurrent updating in multi-user environments), application-level (e.g. Word) locks must be placed somewhere where other instances of the application can relate them to the original resource. I don't think any current versions of Word require such locks. Application temporary files should normally be placed in local temporary space. Instead of using the %temp% directory provided by Microsoft's own operating system specifically for this purpose, Word chooses to use the document's source folder. This does confuse users and does cause problems when working on networked devices and/or removable media. The only time there is any real reason to use a file's source folder for temporary work space is when saving a file - to make sure the file is properly saved before removing the original - overwriting in place is inherently risky. Quite right. This would be one possible exception, but even then, if there isn't enough space on the removable media, I would move the original file to the hard disk, write the new version on the removable media, then delete the old version -- all with appropriate flags to facilitate recovery in case of power failure or premature ejection. Again, any good undergraduate programming course would teach this. I am inclined to agree that Word's behaviour would be considered bad programming practice, and I can't think of a single thing in its favour. -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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