Edith Manual       File Options     11th September 1994


The following  FILE OPTIONS  can be  specified in  this
dialog:

The TYPE of NEWLINES when a file is saved can be set to
match any of the following three standards:

   MS-DOS      (carriage return, line feed)
   UNIX        (line feed)
   MACINTOSH   (carriage return)

However, when AS IS  is selected instead, the  newlines
in a file  will not  be changed. When  loading a  file,
EDITH will try to recognize  which standard is used  in
the file, and any newlines subsequently typed into  the
text will be  in that style.  Saving 'as is'  is a  few
times faster than saving in a specific newline style.

BACKUPs can  be  written  before saving  a  file.   The
backup file either  has the same  name as the  original
file, with the  extension  '.BAK', or  is  saved  in  a
folder BACKUP by its original name.

CARBON COPIES  of  a  file  can  be  saved  at  regular
intervals, set in minutes, and when  the contents of  a
window are  abandoned.   Carbon  copies  are  a  safety
measure.  When  for example  your computer  system  has
crashed while you were  editing important text,  and  a
carbon copy  of that  text has  been written  recently,
EDITH will automatically offer  to use the carbon  copy
instead of the original file  when it is opened  later.
Also,  when you  decided to  abandon a  text and  later
found the changes valuable anyway, the carbon copy  can
provide a solution.



   ** The 'lid  closing time'  known from  older  Edith
      versions has been set to a fixed time.


Edith Manual       File Options     11th September 1994