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Subject:Re: Does Frame crash? Heck no ! From:Pat Madea <madea -at- MMSI -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 3 Aug 1995 11:31:35 MST
Richard Dimock writes:
>> Crash? Crash? Don't recognize the term. We have Frame4 for UNIX
>> on a SUN network, and it doesn't crash. The network may become
>> operationally challenged, but Frame doesn't crash.
and Sally Derrick writes:
>I've had Frame4 crash a few times.
>
>However, Frame crashes soooo infrequently I don't seem to get too
>upset with it. Frame is also EXCELLENT at recovery files. If it does
>go down or if your network goes down around it, Frame creates a
>.recover file for each file that was open. In 4 year of using Frame and
>only about 10 crashes (at least half of which were power failures), I
>have never lost more than 30 minutes of work.
To atone for some of my FM bashing, I, too, agree with Richard and
with Sally. Frame is very, very stable and I've never lost a file.
In fact, you have to really work at it to delete one entirely!
