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  From: Jake Hawkes <jake@eclectic.com.au>
  To  : LinuxSA Mailing List <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:13:50 +1030

when saving doesn't mean saving

When saving doesn't mean saving
 - an essay in angst

Recent experience in working with Access 2000 shows that one shouldn't
trust the "Save" action. It seems that no matter when you last saved
your project, if Access is to hang, there will be an unknown amount of
code lost.

I am working on an access front end to run on a bunch of (duh) windows
machines, which will talk ODBC to a postgreSQL database.

Its working fine - but the Access 2000 developement environment is not
stable. It hangs, and when it does, stuff gets lost. Stuff that you've
saved!!

This is the type of thing that you simply can't tell the
layperson-computer user. How many times have you said to a newbie "Save
early - save often". Well now it seems that that isn't so true.

Bugga

--
Jake Hawkes, B.Eng (CSE)

"I'm only smart enough to know how stupid I am", Joe Strummer.

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