[11435] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.6J: framemaker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dot@MIT.EDU)
Mon Nov 29 12:06:26 1993
From: dot@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 93 12:05:52 EST
To: banerji@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc:
Hello,
Back in the beginning of September you sent in this bug report:
>What were you trying to do?
>
>I was typing something up.
>
>What's wrong:
>
>I went over my quota, and framemaker died.
>
>What should have happened:
>
>Warning instead of sudden death.
>
>Please describe any relevant documentation references:
>
>It didn't even autosave at the end because I was over my quota. Maybe
>autosaves should be done elsewhere.
>
>Thanks.
You are absolutely correct (in my opinion anyway) that autosaves should
be done elsewhere. Unfortunately, it is currently impossible to
redirect them, though we have submitted a feature request to the Frame
Technology Corp.
The more serious problem is that FrameMaker crashed and took your work
with it. We are aware of a problem in the interaction between Frame and
the AFS file system and are putting together a guideline document to
help people avoid the problem while we wait for the fix. However, we
are not aware of a quota problem leading to Frame actually crashing,
only that it sometimes loses data, and in general only on very large
documents. If you can repeatedly make Frame die, please let us know the
details so that we can look into the problem.
Dorothy Bowe
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Dorothy Bowe
Academic Computing Services
Faculty Liaison
email: dot@mit.edu
phone: (617)253-0170
fax: (617)258-8736
