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Save Page

The "Save" Page is related on opening, saving and write access.

Starting WSedit without parameter influences the behaviour when starting WSedit without opening a file at the beginning. You can get a file dialog at the beginning or you get an empty editor field with the filename Newtext1, Newtext2, Newtext3 (up to 9). These files are located where WSedit.exe resides.

When opening, set file to read only is the read only workgroup functionality of WSedit. This helps you sharing text files with your collegues in the network where several people have got access to a text file: the user which opens the file first has got write access, the others have got only read access.

Refresh WSedit if file was written by an external editor is useful for files which are created by another program and are read in WSedit. Every 1,5 seconds, WSedit compares the file date with the date where the file has been read the last time. If the date has changed, WSedit automatically reads the actualized file. If you have changed the text file in the editor, WSedit asks whether to loose changes or not.

Do not write Soft Returns in WS files does not write Soft Returns into WS files when saving a file. If you choose this selection, you will loose Wordstar (DOS) compatibility. (To be more precise, you can read this files with Wordstar DOS, but you need to reformat the text to see the whole text.) The advantage of this setting is that tables won't get corrupted even you haven't turned off formatting (.BA).

If close, save without querying
If checked, closing the WSedit window by clicking the Close button in the title bar will automatically save the text file without question.

There are two independent Backup functionalities.

Backup helps you to restore a file if your computer or WSedit crashes. WSedit writes the text e.g. every 3 minutes to a TXT file (even Wordstar format is used; use the clipboard to copy the text back). The file is located in the directory where your current text file resides. You can change the name of the file. If you have got several WSedit files open where the text files shares the same directory, all editors uses the same backup file. (I assume this is not relevant in practice.)

Create *.BAK files renames the old text file to *.BAK when the file is saved again.