Hi Jon,

You reminded me of back when we lived in Lancaster, TX (a suburb on the south side of Dallas). I was writing my thesis at 3:00 in the morning, on a then spanking new 386 clone, when a tornado passed about a mile south of our apartment. Obviously it was too dark to see anything, but I was able to track the path of the tornado by watching the transformers blow up in succession (flashes of an eerie shade of green glow above the treetops was what we actually saw). Needless to say, I spent the night writing a paragraph, and saving the work. Write a paragraph, save the work. I finally finished my thesis about 4:45 that morning.

Joe

Oh yeah! The reason I was writing my thesis at 3:00 in the morning during a tornado was because at about 7:00 or 8:00 that evening, while writing what was about the next to last page, the first thunderstorms rolled in, knocked out the power, and wiped out my whole thesis. Not because I hadn't saved it. I had the processor set to do 10 minute backups automatically. I wished that I had only lost 10 minutes of work. The surge corrupted my file which wiped out the whole thing. That's when and how I learned to write each chapter in its own file.