Kenneth Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > my LyX program crashed last night, and now I can't > open my document completely. In particular, I get the > following warning: > > "Reading the document is not complete". > > My LyX program is version 1.3.5 and I operate it under > windows 98se.
You're not going to enjoy this answer much... LyX 1.3.5 was an unofficial port of LyX to Windows by Ruurd Reitsma. It formed the basis of the official port that was released as LyX 1.3.7. There was a *lot* of work involved in merging Ruurd's work into the official source. It took the best part of a year to produce the rock solid app. that is LyX 1.3.7. Amongst other things that were missing was a signal handler that allows LyX to recover gracefully when it hits an error condition. This enables it to save your document before it exits. The bad news for you is that the native Windows build of LyX 1.3.7 and above won't work on Win98. We put some considerable effort into trying to make it do so, but the problem lies with the GPL-ed port of the Qt library that we use to provide out GUI. Two solutions that will present this problem occurring in the future present themselves. Both require you to upgrade your LyX to LyX 1.3.7: 1. Upgrade your OS to something less ancient than Win98, Win98SE or WinME. Microsoft themselves has removed all support for these beasts. They're just horrible. If you do that, you'll be able to use the native Windows version of LyX 1.3.7 (or greater) straight out of the box. 2. Leave your OS as it is and use the Cygwin version of LyX 1.3.7 (or greater). Neither solution will repair your damaged document. However, you can look at it with, say, notepad to see what's left/missing. Is there also a file ending .lyx.emergency in that folder? Probably not --- I suspect that's a LyX 1.3.7 feature. If you use a official build of LyX, it won't prevent the thing from crashing but it should mean that your documents are safe. Regards, Angus
