Re: Ferret enhancement?

[Steve Hankin <hankin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Subject:
            Ferret enhancement --> persistence of journal output when crash occurs

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Hi Mark,

I believe this behavior has already been fixed in Ferret version 5.1 ALPHA.

The behavior turned out to be operating system-specific. I believe that Solaris
exhibited the undesirable behavior -- possibly others, too.

    thanks for the feedback - steve

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"Mark A. Verschell" wrote:

> To the Developers:
>
> Here is a suggestion for a future version of ferret (although I wish I had it
> now!). If your ferret session is abnormally terminated you almost always end up
> with an empty ferret.jnl file. It would be nice if output to this file was
> flushed after every command (or at least every couple of commands) so that when
> bad things happen to good researchers, you at least have some record.
>
> Of course, often this isn't a big problem because I can cut and paste from the
> window and recreate the ferret.jnl file, but today I had a crash where I not
> only lost the ferret session but the window I was working in also.
>
> Mark Verschell
>
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