In message <Pine.LNX.3.91.960508120542.4123A-100000@tendo-dojo.ranma.net>
  White Wolf said:

: On Wed, 8 May 1996, Harvey Torrance Griffin wrote:
:
: > On Tue, 7 May 1996, Ranma al'Thor <ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu> wrote:
: > > Well, I finally got copies of 1-3 to post here.  Too bad the process
: > > destroyed all copies of #4.  I'm contemplating crushing my own skull at
: > > this point.
: > 	I know how you feel man, beleive me I know how you feel.
:
: You two should form a club.
:
: FANFIC DELETERS ANONYMOUS!
:
: "My name is Jimbo, and I've deleted the same fic twice."
:
: "...I've deleted mine twice too!  What are the odds?"

And it always happens when the file is *really long*, too.

Just when you are about to save/mail the longest, most well-
formulated article of your life some program that was running in
tha background decides to screw up royally and freezes everything.

In that case I reset the computer and dump all memory into a 4 mb
file that I sift through to salvage the text from the writing
program's working memory (assuming that the crashed program didn't
overwrite everything with random data - grrr)

But most of the time it's *me* who screws up:

"Save changes?  Yes/No"

"No. ... AAYYAAAARGHHH!! <sound of head being smashed against many
solid, immovable objects including walls and little sisters>"

Sebastian
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